- How does this reading impact your thinking about technology's role in teaching and learning?
I didn't know a thing about flickr before this chapter. Know i think its pretty cool. I took an ecology class and the professor used many picture from his personal collection to teach the class. He was personally connected to the material and that made learning easier for me, proof that they are here because this is what they like as apposed to what they are being paid to do. As a future science teacher i want to create a bank of photos i took to help in my teaching. Their are a million pictures of oak trees but i got pictures of 300 year old oaks that i went to see in new Orleans. the longer i live the more pictures ill have and by the time i retire i hope to use all my own photos as an aid in learning life science in school. Flicker was custom designed for me.
What will you do differently as a future teacher as a direct result of this new thinking?
I can create a class Flickr account they would have access to. they could view my photos, divided by units, and add their own, for extra credit maybe. A lot of science can be learned through pictures and captions, i have aced classes reading little else. I probably wont have a very throe account at first, but 10 or so years down the line it should be awesome.
I could use this for students who missed a class lab or forgot some of what we did. a slide show for labs can be a great resource for students. a virtual lab with the dead rat clearly labeled.
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