Hello Bloggers,
This week our task was to find two emerging technologies
that will add to our educational goals for our adult learners. This in itself is a daunting task. There is absolutely too much “stuff” out there
that has my eyes watering right now. I
feel like exploding….
Okay enough ranting and raving. I have chosen two applications that I think
can help me along the way not only with my adult learners but with my Marine
Corps JROTC cadets as well.
The applications I decided to explore this week are “School
Fuel” and “Knowmia”. The links will be
provided at the end of the page.
Let us take a look at School Fuel first. School Fuel helps teachers uncover, manage
and distribute the best tools for learning.
From the School Fuel administration console, educators populate app and
resource libraries based on subject areas, grade levels and Common Core
standards. Students then quickly access
these apps, files, digital texts and links on nearly any device, including
phones and tablets. (From the website).
I like this application because we as teachers can
manipulate the data ourselves and tailor it to exactly what we want and
need. The key is nearly any device and
we all know how many different types of phones, ipads, ipods, etc are floating around out there.
Additionally school fuel supports different software types for all forms of
documents. So, if it is out there in
document form (word, pdf, etc), school fuel can probably support it.
Next let me tell you about my personal favorite. Knowmia, is here and it is what I envisioned
during my discussion. I guess I am just
light years behind technology. Knowmia uses video multimedia to teach a lesson
in a more acceptable format. When I
first considered going to college, I took a class during my tour of duty in
Okinawa Japan. I sat through 13
Saturdays of lectures and test taking.
That was my introduction into the higher education realm. I wanted no parts of it because the teacher
was boring and monotone. Had he provided
some levity or excitement then maybe! Knowmia currently has over 13K worth of
lessons covering just about any subject. In this very format but they are more
livelier and entertaining. We are visual and we know it so why not capitalize
on our strengths.
Check them out and let me know what you think
Sergeant Major
Two more technologies which are new to me! Knowmia sounds like a great alternative to traditional learning. I woudl envision using this with students who are visual learners to teach data. Dr. Cavallo states to use digital media for “procedural things that are hard to learn by text”. It sounds like this site would help to do that. I will check it out.
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