I hope to be able to find new resources and innovative ways to use previously known or existing ones in my professional teaching. There's a saything that new technology is common, but new thinking is not, and there's a lot of tech being used in schools in fairly boring and standard ways that doesn't particularly inspire both the learner and the educator. There's a huge assortment of ways people deliver the same content, so collaborating with others who have a shared interest in technology is a fantastic way to figure out something new.
A question that I keep coming back to is how the varied integration of technology in schools may be adversely impacting students’ ability to focus on boring stuff. It is quite challenging to actually be bored for any extended periods of time now, as soon as there is nothing going on the smartphones come out to play and fingers start texting, playing games or scrolling through social media. Is this causing an adverse impact on creativity in kids? Technology has taken over making stuff up to keep ourselves occupied, imagination may be being stifled. In a classroom environment we’re always looking at trying new and novel things, but I feel like a lot of it may be “lets try that, lets try this” instead of sitting down with a particular perhaps not-so exciting tool and mastering it to a high level. Sharing our information: I’m interested to see what @AndrewMendosa, @SamHarris and @StevenPinker would think about this issue, being the most active and followed psychologists currently on Twi...
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