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Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies (Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning)

by Michelle Pacansky-brock

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Winnie said: " Written by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, the book “Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies” contains valuable information on how educators, at any level or experience, can teach more effectively with all of the emerging technologies. The bo Written by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, the book “Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies” contains valuable information on how educators, at any level or experience, can teach more effectively with all of the emerging technologies. The book as a whole, gave me insight into how educators are beginning to transform their teaching. Much of what Pecansky-Brock brings up is relatable, and makes me ponder about the subject even more. For instance, she discusses how it is a common perception that the internet is “ruining society, creating a generation of disrespectful, entitled, copyright pirates.” However, for many Millennials, going online is a way for them to connect with other people who share the same interests (p. 4). I know that for many of my teacher colleagues, and even for me, we rely on what other people share on the internet. Many of us use Teachers Pay Teachers, the largest educational marketplace with millions of resources that are easily and readily downloadable. Additionally, many of us seek advice, training, and expertise through the internet.

Pacansky-Brock shares her experience with the flipped classroom. As an educator, this is the path that I want to start heading on, but there are still so many unknowns, due to the knowledge and questions I have about it. However, just like learning and implementing a new curriculum, I know that transitioning into a flipped classroom is something I will just need to start, and make adjustments from there as needed. Pacansky-Brock shares her survey results from her students about the flipped classroom, which allows me to see that it is effective. She reported that her survey revealed an increased amount of “student satisfaction, engagement, sense of community, and critical thinking (p.13). Additionally, she shared that the majority of her students said that the flipped classroom experience was a more enriching learning experience, allowed students to ask more questions during the class time, their ideas and perspectives felt valued in the classroom, and that the class-time was more relevant to their individual needs. Through my minimal personal experience of flipped classrooms, it seems to work more effectively in high school or college, where students are more independent with their learning. As an elementary school teacher, it’s difficult to see how a flipped classroom would work. There are so many other factors that come into question, such as: What do the students who don’t have reliable internet access at home do? Will there be allocated time in class for those students to watch the videos? How can we engage younger students who are still learning to type on online networks, such as VoiceThread? Pacansky-Brock most refers to students in college or university, but I would like to use her ideas on a smaller scale with elementary school students. This way, they can be familiar with the process and become comfortable with a flipped classroom at a young age.

Chapter 2, “A New Paradigm for a New Century” is very relatable in the way that Pacansky-Brock says that teaching with emerging technology is “by nature, experimental and failure is an implicit step in an experiment” (p. 41, 42). She goes to explain that failure is a part of learning and improvement. This reminds me of all the times I have failed when trying a new curriculum. Students would get bored, the lesson would get confusing, there would be a plethora of misunderstandings, and the list goes on… However, often times, I find that getting started is the hard part. Like Pacansky-Brock says, failure is such an important step in learning. With the failures, I’m able to take a look at what went wrong, and plan for improvement in that area. From that point on, it just becomes more and more successful.
“Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies” is a great handbook as it includes a lot of helpful tips and resources with getting started on a flipped classroom. One of the most helpful sections I found was in Chapter 3, Essential Toolkits. In this chapter, Pacansky-Brock shares online content hosting services and tools that help with captioning the videos. She mentions YouTube, box.com, wistia.com, and universalsubtitles.org. While YouTube is very well-known, I had not thought about captioning the videos prior. Captioning is quite essential because it gives students the option to follow along with the words, see the spelling of certain words, and makes it more accessible to all students (such as those who are hearing impaired). I love how Pacansky-Brock ends the chapter with saying “the toolkit outlined above is like a Swiss army knife for teaching with emerging technologies.” It truly is a great resource for getting started with our own online community with our students. ...more "

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