Incorporating Technology into my L2 Classroom

The first rule of fight club is to…. Oh wait! Wrong club... Beware the Ides of March Salvete omnes! I was visiting YouTube the other day, my home away from home if you will, and in between my usual viewings of cat videos I was able to watch a video titled, New Media Consortium . In the video the presenter, Adam Levine, discusses the importance of establishing a network of colleagues, both in and outside of your discipline, to experiment and explore new techniques of integrating technology in the classroom. The most important thing, I think, Adam says in the video is, “ it is really important for us to stay connected to people who are smarter than because we can’t know everything ”. I think it was important for me, and for other people who may be like me, to hear that it is okay to reach out for help. Being someone who wants to be able to do and know it all, this is not something that comes to mind easily. Adam’s whole video really emphasized the necessity of having a Perso...

Salvete omnes! For today’s post I want to discuss the concept of connectivism, but first, have you ever heard of Moore’s Law? For those readers who have not, simply put, Moore’s Law states that processor speeds, or overall processing power of computers will double every two years. This statement was coined in 19 6 5 by George Moore who is one of the co-founders of Intel and is still a popular trend that can be observed among technology today.  If at this point you are thinking, “well that is a neat fun fact, but what does that have to do with education?”. I’m so glad you asked because to me, a learner is like technology. We’ve all heard this saying before but I’m going to say it again now, what students are learning today, and how they are learning it, has drastically changed from when I was in school. So too has technology. Just as we have discussed before on this blog, changes in policy, the incorporation of technology in our classrooms, and the amount of informatio...