7 Ways to Use Technology With Purpose

7 Ways to Use Technology With Purpose

Why are you utilizing technology? Then again all the more imperatively, how are you utilizing technology to better the learning in your classroom and/or school? On the off chance that you are similar to me, then you've had what's coming to you of technology screw ups. Ventures that didn't bode well (however used the tech you needed to acquire). Exercises that were demolished by a slamming site or some innovative issue. Furthermore, obviously you've most likely managed the understudies, folks, and instructors that need to do things "the old way". 

Keeping in mind the end goal to ensure you are utilizing technology the right way, you should first "begin with why". In the event that your understudies comprehend the "why" behind your technology use, then the class will have a reason and mechanical glitches and issues can be worked through. On the off chance that they don't comprehend the "why" then any little issue could transform into a noteworthy issue. 

Here are 7 ways I've been utilizing technology for a reason as a part of my classroom and as a staff engineer in my school. I'm certain there are numerous different approaches to use tech with reason, however these are some of my top picks!

1:To Collaborate in Real Time:

Keep in mind when Google Docs broke onto the scene? It was enchantment. Understudies composing and partaking progressively, ready to see what alternate understudies are doing and saying, while as yet taking a shot at your own part of the venture or action. Streak forward 7-8 years and now "constant coordinated effort" is an absolute necessity for most online programming. This sort of technology permit venture based figuring out how to be checked, archived, and done outside of the school hours. 

At my school we have been utilizing Microsoft OneNote (and additionally the Google items) to team up continuously. Whether it is staff arranging together, understudies cooperating, or a mix of both… this technology has such a large number of learning purposes.

2:To Reflect and Share:

I used to have my understudies diary in their marble scratch pad. What's more, amid specific exercises regardless I do (like Writer's Bootcamp). Be that as it may, what's decent about having understudies diary online and offer "in the cloud" is the capacity for their schoolmates to see what they need to say. 

This is the reason I propose blogging consistently, and not generally as a task. Make blogging a piece of your understudy's life and you'll have the capacity to see which points, thoughts, ventures, and exercises truly affected them. Once in a while it may not be what you thought… and once in a while their straightforward demonstration of sharing will unite the class in ways you never could have envisioned.

3:Better Research:

After I wrapped up my Master's proposition on 'peace instruction in the 21st century' I chatted with my mother about her composition process in doctoral level college. It sounded terrible… She would need to go to the library, discover an asset, read practically the whole asset, make duplicates of the pages she needed to use, and actually "cut it out" and "glue it on" her typewritten record. 

Technology has made exploration straightforward and additional time effective. I'm not looking at writing an inquiry into google, I'm particularly focused on seeking diary databases like ERIC through spots like Ebscohost. A decent search query will turn up several associate investigated results which can be sorted various routes, (for example, by date or full-message article). Those articles that you pick can then be consequently examined for your watchwords, read the particular parts you need, and use what is material with a straightforward duplicate and glue and legitimate reference effectively set up and prepared to go. 

How regularly do we truly show understudies how to examine in today's reality? On the other hand do we anticipate that them will learn all alone as we did?

4:Write and Re-Write:

Utilizing devices, for example, Google Docs, the new Microsoft Word, or Draft understudies can compose and alter on the fly. They can get input from associates and educators… and afterward pick regardless of whether to acknowledge that criticism on their written work. Technology has changed the written work process similarly it has changed the examination process. 

The most essential piece of composing is the overhauling and altering. Yet, we frequently underestimate it. Rather how about we use the technology to track what sorts of changes understudies have made, and in the event that they are committing the same errors in their written work again and again. That way, the "re-composing" procedure can directly affect the amount they enhance and change some of their written work propensities after some time.

5:Make Something That Matter:

This might be my most loved approach to use technology with a reason. Understudies now can make motion pictures, tunes, bits of workmanship, sites, applications, amusements etc–with technology. Nonetheless, time after time we request that understudies make something that does not make a difference. We request that they make a film or blurb or presentation that has no immediate effect on their general surroundings. 

Rather, how about we provoke ourselves to begin making technology matter. Make iMovies that can be transferred to Youtube and have a reason. Make recreations with a significance. Make applications that matter. Yes, there is a period for entertainment only and recreations. Yet, in the event that that is all we use technology for in school… then we shouldn't be shocked when that is all understudies use technology for once they escape school.

6:Keep a Digital Record:

Computerized portfolios are an unquestionable requirement. Not because universities will need and need them later on (which is going on sooner than you might suspect). Not because it is a cool approach to flaunt what you've done in class. Advanced portfolios are an unquestionable requirement because they indicate learning development. 

The most ideal approach to show how much an understudy has educated is through an advanced portfolio. You can think back after some time and what they've made, composed, and done in school. Furthermore, how that work has enhanced (and in what routes) all through their educating. At the point when understudies know their work will be in plain view and recorded, they likewise take pride in what they do because it will last. 

Ask yourself, would you say you are making "advanced refrigerator craftsmanship" or something worth keeping?

7:Mastery Assessments:

Consider the last time you gave an evaluation. I'm certain you arranged understudies for it amid class, gave them materials to concentrate on, and upheld them amid the appraisal. Be that as it may, there were certainly a couple of understudies who battled on this evaluation. What happens next? You can either give them a re-take, give them another comparable evaluation, or say that is there just risk. 

In the event that you gave them a computerized appraisal you'd have the capacity to see precisely which addresses they got wrong in contrast with the whole class. You could perceive the amount of time they spent on the inquiry and if the answer they picked was off track base… or close. You could tailor another appraisal in light of simply the issues/questions they got wrong and ensure they accomplished authority on those subjects before pushing ahead. 

Technology ought to change the way we do evaluations everlastingly, yet unfortunately huge numbers of despite everything us give tests the same way we did 10 years back. This is a tech reason we can't dodge any more.