Emerging Technologies for Learning

Assignment: write a "how-to" guide that instructs a veteran teacher how to effectively integrate technology into the classroom. Include a rationale for the use of instructional technology.

Podcasting
it’s something most high school kids – and even many elementary and middle school kids – already know how to do, or could learn from their peers in under 10 minutes.
By making a podcasts assignments, the students get a variety of assignments instead of writing reports or doing worksheets. Podcasts can be assigned to individuals, or
to a whole class working in teams (which allows those who don’t know how to make them to learn from their
peers).

Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging (IM) is something many kids do so well and easily. Uses for text messageing in the classroom or for assignments includ interviewing experts using standard English, practising business etiquette and conversational skills, doing
research on the health risks of mobile phones, text messaging ideas such as to speakers while they are debating, reviewing silently for quizzes, and taking
pictures of notes and assignments on the board.

When it comes to the newest technology, it is always better to get the ideas for how to use new technologies from the students, and to assign
the use of the technologies to them. If we don’t do this,
and if we don’t teach the kids to use these technologies
responsibly, they will just use them to beat us.

Link to actual Article