How did completing this integrated study project help your think in greater depth about planning for effective technology integration into a core subject area?
How did you ensure that technology was an integral part of the study, not just an add-on or an electronic way of doing exactly what could be done without technology at all?
The way that we accomplished this was to use it as a tool, where there is a message about using technology responsibly. Also, I wanted it to relate to the ways that real politicians use these technologies, and if you look in the resources section, you`ll see Mayor Nenshi`s feed, which would be useful to examine and use as an example for our own work. Then we are not simply using facebook as an electronic way of accomplishing our goal, but also looking critically at the tool and what it does.
These kinds of real world examples are exactly what I would use to start a class, to focus the class and get them thinking before allowing them to work on their project, so that my students would have a mix of both traditional teaching, a discussion and a facilitator in a 90 minute period.
How did completing this integrated study help you meet additional personal/professional goals of this seminar?
What are you learning about possibilities and pitfalls of planning with others as you learn new things?
In what ways might you use this integrated study with your own students next year if the opportunity arose?