There are plenty of ways that you could use photo sharing, but again as Postman (1993) eluded to, we should not just use technology to use it, we need to have a learning outcome in mind. It would be nice to have the time to just play, but with so many other standards that students must complete we must think about what the end goal is.
One way I can think of to use photo sharing in an early elementary classroom is to use the tagging feature. Give each student an account with the same pictures and have them add adjectives as tags and then allow them to compare what they did with what their fellow classmates did. An international classroom partner would be even better because there might be differences in spelling or perceptions that could be discussed.
A concern would be that students may stumble upon other users pictures that would not be appropriate or a liability could come into play if the students picture was posted and parents did not want their pictures exposed for protective reasons. That is why with the project described above, students would predetermined pictures and not of themselves. One nice feature of flickr is that you can choose who can see the pictures. Individual pictures could be taken of students and only shared with their parents or other designated “safe” accounts.
Postman, N. (1993). Of Luddites, learning, and life. Technos Quarterly, 2(4).
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Chapter 2
I do not develop educational lesson plans so I will have to answer the latter question of if I found and aspects of what is described in this chapter surprising, useful or unnecessary.
The fact that I found most surprising is that instructional design is as young as the 1960’s and that one of the first places to adopt the practice was the military (Reiser & Dempsey, 2007). I am now curious to see what teachers receiving formal education before the 1960’s were taught when they were learning how to teach. Western Michigan University itself started in 1903 as a teaching college, so what were they taught between 1903 and 1970.
The characteristics section of the chapter was very interesting to me (Reiser & Dempsey, 2007). I could really see this section being useful when you are reviewing your process. Reading through the descriptions of what Instructional Design is and compare it to what you have done would be something that would really help me make sure I am on the right track.
I think that every part of this chapter is useful for someone. Everyone learns and organizes in a different way. Some people may not find the charts useful and would gain more from just the descriptions. I would even consider myself one of those people, but there are many more people out there who would be lost without the visual representation that the charts provide.
Reiser, R. & Dempsey, J. (2007). Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall.
Monday, May 19, 2008
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3 comments:
Katherine,
You brought up the issue of liability concerning photo sharing, I echo those same sentiments. In today’s day that cannot be taken lightly. In postsecondary education, we as teachers can not give any information to anyone other than the student. I cannot even tell a parent, who may be paying for their child’s education, if he or she was in class that day. It’s known as the FERPA law, and the college takes it very seriously.
Jeff Tyler
I thought that your idea about using photo sharing with elementary students to explore adjectives etc. was great.
I don't have a classroom yet and am always looking for ideas and things that I can use.
My primary area is secondary but I got my endorsement in elementary; so I don't feel as comfortable with that area- not yet anyway. But I still do a lot with kids.
Katie, I think that I am just paranoid because of all of the things out there but, if social bookmarking allows people to see your bookmarks and the bookmarks of people that have "sent" bookmarks to you etc. What's to say that may not contact your contacts.
They may pretend to know you etc. and/or see what that person is interested in and pretend to be interested for other purposes. The thing I like is that you can mark bookmarks private. This helps me feel better.
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