Monday, June 18, 2007
Day 3 - Reflections and Questions
Reflect on the VRML resources that you were shown today and post your thoughts on how such tools can bridge the gap between digital immigrants teaching digital natives in the classroom. Can VRML be used to enhance or promote inquiry based learning in the classroom? How?
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VRML resources can be your thoughts on how such tools can bridge the gap between digital teaching digital natives in the classroom. It can also be used to enhance or promote inquiry based learning in the classroom.
First, I am a digital native teaching digital natives. However, using VRML to allow the students, expecially my Ld/Bd students, to phisically move around objects, move closer, and view things from different angles will bridge the gap of getting the unmotivated, uninterested, and the to cool for school students involved in the lesson.
I am definitely a digital immigrant but I was able to do the assignments (with some effort). As shown by our class yesterday,VRML promotes inquiry based learning by giving the students a background and they expand that knowledge at their pace, on their level, by diving deeper into the program.
VRML can give digital immigrants the technology necessary to inspire the digital natives. Once the natives are exposed to this technology they will take it and run with it. They will be able to do things that the digital immigrants only imaged. This technology can be used both to enhance and promote inquiry based learning. The immigrants can use the technology to present info or they can have the natives use it in an inquiry based learning lab.
HARD!!!!
Pete was fantastic. We need more in the profession like him.
VRML resource are challenging and really makes one think and use every creative thought one might possess!
I know students would reallly dig in to this and run with it!
I do feel that vrml is a very useful tool to enhance inquiry based learning in the classroom.
I just felt alittle overwhelmed yesterday trying to keep up put code into the computer to create the atom and planets exercise.
The more I learn about VRML, the more I see its use in the classroom. Digital natives are so used to seeing a computer screen, rather than a chalkboard or overhead. Simply presenting to them in this format results in a greater comprehension of the material. When using VRML in a geometry classroom, one can easily demonstrate difficult concepts in three dimensions.
The VRML activities did it for me. Although I'm not a native, I am a "naturalized citizen" of cyberspace and a convert to tech integration strategies for classrooms, including classroom environmental design, which should be a focus here as well.
As a constructivist to the bone and somewhat eclectic in engagement strategies, of course I can see that VRML can be used to engage students as well. I do talk about the engagement gap in traditional classrooms that are teacher-centered in workshops that I've done over the years. Tools in the arsenal, like VRML, can be used as "learning nuggets" minimally, or as the focus in a classroom.
The fact that there are tech natives in our classes, make VRML a natural part of classrooms. My only problem is the digital divide between those natives and rural kids who either don't have broadband access to even delve in at a fraction of involvement as the more urban or suburban "natives", much less have access to techology at all, has become a personal mission of mine in regard to classroom design, cooperative learning opportunities, and collaboration.
I'm sorry for the long sentence, but this is one of my passions as a teacher.
Call it a personal mission, but I refuse to give these kids up come sceduling time because I know that I can engage my less fortunate kids by using, in this case, VRML as the catch, or my "Inquiry, or PBL nugget".
I'll be working on the details. Thanks for the engagement CITERA staff.
Pete was very interesting, although I still don't want to teach chemistry. The 3-D work was frustrating, but hey so are my wife and kids and golf and teaching and ........ If it was easy everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great!
VRML has really opened my mind to new and innovative ideas. The students would absoulutely love VRML. It would engage them as well as frustrate them.
I am fascinated with the VRML. I think that if I could learn to import this into other applications, I would use it like crazy! My students would be interested and impressed at the same time with this old digital immigrant.
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