Last September, Nicky Hockly delivered a talk at the UNL ATE Hotel in Santa Fe, Argentina. She called this talk "Going Mobile", because she addressed a current challenge for teachers to face: the use of technology in the classroom.
She showed different ways of integrating technological devices into everyday lessons, ranging from simpler tasks (such as taking photos) to really sophisticated ones (for example, using Aurasma, a Web 2.0 tool - see our post about this topic). These are really useful ideas to overcome this controversial issue: "to use or not to use technology in the lessons".
In the context we are going to teach, this pieces of advice are feasible up to a point, since in most public school classrooms, internet connection is not available, and this makes this integration of technology difficult. However, on the brighter side, we can use Nicky Hockly's ideas and adapt and re-invent them to suit our reality.
She also mentioned the SAMR model (see this post for more information) to demonstrate that technology not always means innovation.
As a conclusion, as future teachers of this digital generation, we should see technology as a partner and not as an enemy.
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