KIM MANTIFEL- DRAKEPROFESSOR OF BUSINESS

ALGONQUIN COLLEGE, ONTARIO

Technology in Teaching

Digital immigrant or native?

“ Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. “

“It’s very serious, because the single biggest problem facing education today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants ,By Marc Prensky

Are you an immigrant or a native?

How often do you have cash on you? Do you pay more often by debit , credit or cash?

How would you find a phone number, phone book, internet?How do you give people directions, paper map, Google map, map

quest, verbally?How do you pay your bills- at bank, mail, telephone, online

banking?How do you plan to have students submit assignments- paper,

email, drop box, other electronic options available?How do you think you will mark and give feedback- with a big red

pen, comments on word, standardized feedback through an e-platform?

Will you have them submit electronically and then print out to mark and hand paper back?

Educational use of New technologies

WikisBlogsPodcastsOther ( time permitting)

Wiki- quick edit

What are they?Why use them?Group work,

assignment details, collaborative, syllabus, presentation schedules

How to create one?

Students reaction/ training

Wikipediahttp://pbworks.com/http://

changingfaceofmanagement.pbworks.com/

Google.docs- www.docs.google.comBlackboardOthers?

Blogs

What are they?Where to find them- www.edublog.comWays to use themGroup work, reflective journals, portfolio,

commentary. Dilemma

Podcasts:

Why use them + howWhere to find them: Itunes or Google itExamples of uses:

Communication skills exercises Grammar tips essay writing tips Soft skills To cover that other stuff…..

Other areas

You tube- add variety to the lesson Learning objects- merlot.orgE-portfolios

Others?

YouTube - business plan + financials.url