Tag Archives: Technology Education
Blasted CD is Cracked Up!
I have been trying to move some files over to my computer so I can use them in my attempt to better learn the Blender 3D Animation and Modeling suite. But my computer kept trying to read the disk over and over. I rebooted. I tried to copy files, but some “could not be read.” [...]
Technology Education and Problem Solving
I have been thinking a lot about how to teach my Technology Education students how to problem solve; this is really important when you are trying to teach your students in situated learning? When they leave my classroom and return to their offices, they will undoubtedly have problems implementing their new skills nearly right away. [...]
Do your students really know their learning goals in technology education?
Goals are being met I have been asking my students to fill in a little survey at the end of class. Questions on this survey include how the class was able to meet their goals. Here is my process: When asking my students to introduce themselves at the beginning of class, I write down their [...]
Evaluating Technology Education Course Design
I have spent a lot of time talking with you about updating your technology education to improve learning for very complex topics. This week’s post is about evaluating already existing curriculum. An assignment for my 1 credit hour course that accompanies me teaching a for-credit course involved getting midterm evaluations from students and then assessment [...]
What are your student’s technology education goals?
Course Goals OK… so you are teaching a technology class and you have it all planned out. Of course, you need to teach discrete steps so your students can learn how to use the software or write the code–whatever you are teaching. I have discussed planning your course with meaningful goals, such as when you [...]
Turning Learning Goals into Significant Learning
I have been working on instructional goals for a class assignment. I am reworking my Dreamweaver classes based on backwards design and Fink’s significant learning, and I am struggling with how to translate my goals into significant learning. I want to teach my students more than Dreamweaver; my students must learn how to use Dreamweaver [...]
Choosing Technology Education Curriculum
Are Computer Textbooks Any Good Without our Help? Much of the time, technology educators teach out of the book. Often, we use a computer textbooks’ table of contents to prepare our lesson plans (Fink, 2005). This is such an easy method that we commonly use it to help make up time while we scramble to [...]
Situated Learning in a Computer Lab?
What is Situated Learning? Situated learning is placing your learner in an authentic environment that mimics the thought processes and actions of a real-life task. We do our best to recreate authentic learning environments so our students can easily transfer learning from the discrete tasks taught in class to the real world. But that is [...]
