Tech Slam 2011 at Hawaii High School…what a day. Mahalo to everyone for participating. A special mahalo goes out to Darrin, Ellen and the entire ETS team for their support with this effort. Mahalo to all of the presenters, keynote speakers (Mark & Dorothy), Student panel (Teddy, Brandon, Alyssa, Zoe – owe you one!), Loke & Dory for coordinating the logistics and to everyone who shared in today’s landmark event.
Our goal was to expose, introduce, validate and reinforce for our teachers the effective integration of technology in curriculum. I believe we did just that. I had many positive comments, a lot of great discussions, and many teachers saying that they can’t wait to get back to their classrooms to begin.
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Mahalo and God bless!
Student panel brought me my “aha” moments at the tech slam. The first was that students don’t “see” technology much in the same way that we didn’t “see” pens and paper 40 years ago. The second came when it became clear that students didn’t recognize that they were learning when they use technology except when they were researching a topic. Not sure what to make of that. Could it mean that if they use a word processing program to write an essay, they are not aware that are using critical, interpretive, analytic and organizational skill? Note to self: be more explicit when teaching these skills.
Thank you for these two moments of clarity.