I have just been listening to Madhu’s podcast . One of the key themes that comes out is the amount of time that it takes to organise a technology lesson. Every time I sit down to do something on the computer I look at my watch and find that two or three hours have disappeared and I still have not achieved anything.
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We do need to be realistic about our futures. As beginning teachers we will be responsible for preparing and teaching around 15 lessons each week many of us have families and other commitments in our lives. How much time will we be able to devote to the preparation of technology lessons?
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It used to take me ages to produce an assignment using Word, with tables and figures and pictures inside it…
I mean hour after hour of frustration with out of control formatting issues.
But now it is soooo much quicker.
It shouldn’t take nearly as long once we’ve got our systems in place and we’ve planned and taught these lessons with technology once or twice.
Pretty much like any lesson.
The trick is to be able to use pre-made electronic/digital resources where possible and modify these as needed (of course respecting the copyrights of the authors)
As months turn into years, we could incorporate technology increasingly more, as time permits.
NOT TO SAY THAT I’VE NOT FELT SOME FRUSTRATION OF THE AMOUNT OF TIME TAKEN UP TOO!!!
My point is: eventually, technology will make lessons quicker to prepare for…once we ‘get over the hump’….
I must say that there are easier programs and there are harder ones too…
I mean why can you simply paste a link or some writing (loaded with Word formatting) straight into facebook and it will appear without nonsense formatting language, automatically as a hyperlink, with all pictures viewable immediately, but with dear Edublogs (which we still applaud) this is all not so simple…
And the amount of jargon that Facebook and Friendster somehow manage to do away with but Edublogs is loaded with doesn’t help either…
OOOps… I got started again!!
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