Final posts on Field projects

1- Reflect on your project:  My takeout form this project is that there are so many things that effect the use of technology in a K12 setting. What type of learners you have, (special needs students or gifted students), students’ background on technology, teachers’ knowledge on technology use and teachers’ enthusiasm to integrate technology, the proffessional help schools assess to technology, whether there is a technology coordinator to help anytime in the school or not are all among the factors that effect the instruction. These factors also integrated and effect each other closely. My enduring understanding from this project is that we cannot just ignore one factor and try to get benefit from a technology integrated instruction. Teachers, technology coordinators, professional development teams and graduate students like us who goes to schools to help should be in touch to bring new solutions to the difficulties that are faced in schools.

2- Comment on Classmates project: I would like to comment on Ali and Lifang’s field project. I am suprised to hear that adult learners can be resistant to use different technological tools than they have used before. Ali said in class that it is very difficult to get them use other tools, as they want to use the tools that used before. It just seems easier for them to use the tools they know. They know Dreamweaver before and now they thought that it can be difficult to learn about googlepages. However, Googlepages is very easy to use and it offers the user very basic and simple templates.