Technology Literacy

In this article titled "EBSCOhost: CHANGING THE EDUCATION CULTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY"evaluates the different aspects that technology can change or alter in school. Whether we like it or not technology is what today's generation lives on and if we as future educators don't jump on the band wagon and start figuring it out and getting educated were going to get left in the dust. In this article it talks mainly about how it effects the culture and the leadership in higher education. They refer to the technology system as ICT's which stand for Information and communication technologies. They talk a lot about how transformational research, collaboration, and classroom culture are some different aspects that they believe the integration of ICT's( Information and communication Technology) will help with some of the higher education of the school. They are also aware that it will take time because with the process comes a lot of new things and sometimes new culture can bring baggage that that may take some accommodations for some time.

What I learned in this article is how important having a vision is as well as having leadership to accomplish the vision. If you don't have a vision as a school you wont go anywhere and things will never change within the school system. But once you have that vision and your staff has the ability to lead everything just seems to fall into place! So overall i think just having a vision and making sure the leadership agrees with that vision and sees it through is probably what i liked best about this article and what i learned from it.

I can apply this to P.E/Health at the secondary level by really just doing anything possible to integrate technology into my lessons. But when i do integrate technology into my lessons I need to make sure to enlighten my students on the vision I see with the assignment I am giving them. This way they will see where I am coming from. Kids love technology so I think integrating more technology into P.E/Health will be fun for the kids. I also need to be aware of the culture I am creating within my classroom. Maybe on the days we are doing health lessons I can have students bring in their laptops if they have one so they can look up information on certain foods as well as body issues that are appropriate for the high school level. Hopefully when I am teaching they will have smart boards or something where we can have access to so the students can present their health projects on these smart boards and have some fun with it.

The NETs that i want to attain this semsester is to facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Hopefully in this class i will inspire another student to look into the subject of health and learn more about it. The way to do this is to just talk about my subject area and just gain someones interest so they will look into it. My 2nd way would be to learn more in this class about technology so I can use that knowledge and make my presentaion more creative that I would have been able to in the past. Third i would just love to promote healthy living and eating. I am a big time nutrition guy and I think its important to eat healthy because in the end its going to help us live longer and lower the chance of diseases if we are healthy. I can do this by sharing information with students through assignments and my blog.

As far as the NETS for students I would choose Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making. This standard is important for my students because in everything you do especially out in the real world you are going to be faced with challenges where you have to be a critical thinker, problem solver, and decision maker. If you can do all three of those things you are going to be a very successful person out in the world today. Two assignments you can do using this standard are first you can have the students diagram a lifting program where they can estimate how many calories they will burn each day and the foods they should eat before and after the workout. Each day they will have to include some food that isnt good for you like a doughnut and they are going to have to figure out how they can go about losing those empty calories within the workout time they are given. The second assignment can a group project where they research common injuries related to any sport and include a diagram and they have to present the project. This makes them think critically and problem solve together. They also have to make decisions on who is going to do the talking and who is doing what in the project. With both these assignments you will use this standard very effectively.

The citation information is in with the link at the top entitled Changing The Educational Culture Through Technology.