Teaching with You tube videos

You Tube has given teachers the technology necessary to help aid in teaching. In a 5E lesson plan, videos like the previous one are helpful in engaging the students about a new topic. This video is an example of how new technology is a positive aspect for education. Please, read the two previously posted blogs to discuss the questions that relate to this video. If the blogs are read from bottom to top, the questions correlate better with one another.

What are the limitations with teaching with technology?

   Eventhough in the previous blog I have just voiced my opnion on how I like teachnology in the classroom, I am going to make another assertion. Technonlgy sometimes takes away from the element of creative imagination and sometimes causes students to become too dependent upon it. I grew up in the eighties and ninties, hence, we had to actually go to the library for reaserch projects, do field studies, and collect data on our own. However, in today's world, a click on google and other sources furnishes data and causes the intutive imagatintion to be hand delivered to students. So does technology hammer the creative aspect of learning? Click on the following link to read what pshycologists suggust about technology: the Good and Bad of technology

What do you think about teching with technology?

In my opinion, technology is a necessity in the classroom. For example, illustrations and video links help in demonstrating key concepts to the students which can't be explained without the use of some diagram or abstract via technology. For example, as a science teacher, I think key concepts like the sharing of valence electrons are better taught through video links.

Animated  diagrams are also technologically advanced tools that help recreate abstract simulations of science. Hence, in your opinion do you think just lecturing would be more beneficial in the classroom or lecturing with the aid of video technology and animated pictures? Moreover, YouTube sites are banned from being accessed in school. Should this type of ban be placed for teachers also? Check out the two links labeled for YouTube and against YouTube and double click on them. Against Youtube  and  For Youtube