Emerging Technologies

Emerging Technologies:

Here are three examples of some emerging technologies you can incorporate in the classroom:

1. Smart boards- These white boards allow you to write on them while displaying things from the computer. To highlight important things, you can write, circle, or underline things right on the board. They are touch screen and allow many different types of teacher and student interaction.

You could use smart boards in geography lessons by having students define regions by circling them right on the board.

2. Virtual field trips- These allow students to explore places and things that would otherwise be difficult. They are interactive and students can explore what they want at the pace they want. Students may look at areas they find especially interesting and explore more than in other areas.

These intereactive field trips are especially useful to show students places that are not accessible to them. For example, if the social studies class is studying Egypt and the pyramids, they could go on a virtual field trip and explore pyramids.

3. Teacher Tube- This website allows people to upload their own videos or view videos posted by others. Much like YouTube, this site is convenient as you can share things with everyone via the internet. TeacherTube is much more appropriate for the classroom, however, because it is filtered and provides things specifically for an education setting. You can use this in the classroom to demonstrate ideas that have already been put together by someone else (given you cite them as a source!) or to show activities other classrooms have done. It's an easy way to share ideas in a simple way!