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Teach with technology Tech tools don’t replace teachers, but can be used to enhance classroom learning experience BY KIMBERLY WARD GRAHAM Education columnist
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am a self-proclaimed information junkie. A few weeks ago I visited Hearst Castle. I had never been and really knew little about it before I had arrived. After taking the tour, walking the grounds, and hopping a bus back down to my car, I immediately was on my phone doing some research. William Hearst seemed like a rather, how do I say this, controlling personality, and I wanted the real dirt. I spent most of the car ride home Googling various search words — scandal, Hearst, money, affairs — and reading them aloud to my travel buddy. Did you know that Charlie Chaplin was shot while on one of his yacht parties? Well, rumor has it anyway. I got what I needed. I felt satiated with my result findings (which by the way, confirmed my gut feeling), and could then go about my day. Now that I’m technology rich in my classroom, through a very generous donation of iPads, I’m diving a little deeper into how this generation learns — the millennials or Net Generationers. What is their learning style? What are their characteristics? How can I, as an educator, adapt to their distinctive traits? This is the first gen-
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eration to grow up with digital and cyber technologies. They have been saturated with media and have easy access to technology. All information is quickly and readily available, which makes immediacy a learning need of this generation. Typical teaching styles tend to lean towards delaying gratification in learning. I’m guilty as charged. When I’m asked a question in class that I don't know the answer to, I say, “I’ll get back to you on that.” Or better yet, “Great question. Can you report back to the class on that tomorrow?” With the immediate access to the Education columnist Internet in my classroom, they get the information they crave. Technology isn't a replacement for teaching, it simply amplifies what is already there. It modifies our teaching practices to accommodate the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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needs of our students. If my students expect immediate answers, why not allow them the independence to seek it? Their Generation X teacher certainly suffers from the same desire. I wanted rapid facts on the ins and outs of Hearst Castle minutes after my tour, not after my twohour drive home. This generation’s wish for lightening speed access to knowledge has been granted in my classroom. And my school's motto of creating lifelong learners has been ignited in a whole new way. Kimberly Graham is an eighth grade teacher in the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District.
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