Throughout the lecture, I found myself nodding and agreeing with several of Mishra's points, including "technology changes how we teach" and "technology changes what we teach". I also found my own thinking about education and the way we can and should be innovating it with technology to be enhanced. Mishra points out that "most technology was not designed for education" and that "as users we are always defining technology". The biggest takeaway about technology in education was "only re-purposing makes a technology educational technology". We are using technology tools not for their original purpose, but in new ways to enhance, supplement, differentiate, etc. our lessons to students. In order to showcase re-purposing, we as students in CEP 810, were challenged to re-purpose kitchenware and utensils in order to complete a cooking task aka "Cooking with TPACK." We were challenged to have someone randomly select a plate, bowl, and utensil from our kitchen and a number was randomly selected. Each number corresponded with a cooking task/creation. I was tasked with making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a plate, bowl, and spoon. Throughout the process, the plate acted as an excellent holder for the flatbread as I lathered on the contents. The spoon was re-purposed as both the scoop and spreader for the peanut butter and jelly. The bowl did not serve a direct purpose in the creation of the PBJ, but it was able to serve as a holder (not it's original use) for the dirty utensil upon the completion of the PBJ. This brief yet effective exercise expanded my thinking into what I types of technology I re-purpose everyday in my class. What do you find to be the oddest piece of technology that you re-purpose either for the everyday tasks or in your classroom? Let me know! References:
Mishra, P. (2012). Keynote speaker @ 21st century learning conference - hong kong 2012. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/9bwXYa91fvQ
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