Educational Technology

Good Morning!

This week for my teaching with technology, I was asked to share a technological tool. We have explore with so many great tools, it is hard to just pick one! However, one of the tools I can see myself using in my future classroom is popplet. This website works as an online concept map, that allows both students and teachers to organize ideas. I made the following concept map on popplet.

This popplet shows an idea for a project based lesson plan based on Tammy's (2015) idea where students are to create a museum of local ecosystems. In the classroom I can see myself using this tool to help students brainstorm ideas for an inquiry project, or have students make a popplet for a concept review.

At the beginning of this course I was concerned about using technology in the classroom, because technology and I usually don't get along. So far, I have realised that technology is not as scary as I once thought it was. As technology has advanced it has become more and more user friendly. I guess this is so people like me are able to use their product problem free. I am eager to move into the second half of this course, and learn more about teaching with technology!