McLuhan's+Tetrad

McLuhan's Tetrad

//**  **// An emerging technology that I selected is “__**TeacherWeb**__,” which is an online website creator for every subject/classroom teacher. Once you register for it and purchase the service, it provides you with an array of templates to choose from and enables you to create an online classroom website with the features such as announcement, course syllabus, teacher’s profile, URL links, document sharing, quiz calendar and online discussion forum. Below is a tetrad I created regarding this emerging technology with four progressions; //**- Enhances: 24/7 easy access to classroom information/materials**// //**- Obsoletes: printed documents**// //**- Retrieves/Rekindles: traditional bulletin board**// //**- Reverses into: ashynchronous online classroom/teacher’s office**// The potential impact of this technology on teaching and learning is immense. Nowadays, thanks to mobile-communication devices as in laptop computer, i-Pad with Wi-Fi or smart phone, we can connect to the Internet from anywhere and anytime. TeacherWeb, combined with this ubiquity, allows instructor to upload any documents for sharing as well as put up update notice not only from his/her work-place or home computer but also from those mobile gadgets. One of the collateral benefits of this system is that we can save a large amount of paper/sheet that is otherwise to be distributed in the classroom. Aside from teachers, students can benefit from this online classroom website. Say a student missed a class due to illness or something. He/she can still keep up with the class by downloading distriuted documents, checking what is ahead on quiz calendar, or even asking the instructor about questions that arouse through e-mail. Finally, parents can have an access to the course curriculum, including the rubrics. They can also have a chance to enjoy the artifacts students created that are stored on the website or some other online storage place that is linked to the website. Browsing through online discussion board could be another way of making sure that their sons/daughters are really learning.

McLuhan's Tetrad = Marcus Johnson =

====**The emerging technology that I chose is Gaggle. At the time of its inception Gaggle was intended to be a student email provider focusing on student safety. Since then the company has grown significantly and is now so much more than email. The site now offers features for communication and collaboration all within a safe, filtered, and controlled environment. Web 2.0 tools have now moved to the forefront of gaggle’s features. These tools are specifically designed to promote and facilitate collaboration in and out of the classroom. The suite enables anytime access for teachers and students to collaborate on assignments, projects and events. Gaggle’s collection of tools has grown to include Digital Lockers, Message Boards, Chat Rooms, Blogs, Profile Pages, Homework Drop Boxes, Calendars, a Social Wall, GaggleTube, Zoho Docs, and filtered texting.**====

**//- Reverses into: online classroom, classroom management software//**
====** The use of Gaggle in the classroom can be beneficial in a multitude of ways. The number one benefit in my opinion is the 24/7 access, which is available to student, parent, and teacher alike. Also, by uploading documents/assignments online schools would be able to save a lot of money on paper. Another great feature is the apps that the site offers. A student that may miss class for whatever reason could still access live chats or even submit assignments online. The SMS/MMS text feature allows teachers and students to text each other in a safe, restricted, monitored environment. Because of mobile communication devices and the apps provided, users can access the site and its features anytime/anywhere. In my opinion, the use of Gaggle helps prepare students for the use of job issued services and how to use them morally and ethically. **====

** Holly Gramling **
====The potential impact of the iPad on teaching and learning is enormous. With the iPad, the students could have access to information at their fingertips. The iPad is small and easily transportable and could go with the students from classroom to classroom. In the English Language Arts classroom, the students could use the iPad to learn content vocabulary, blog, work on group projects, work on solitary multimedia projects, play games to master concepts, and interact with the Smart Board==== ====A school might want to adopt the iPad for student use for multiple reasons. The iPad is an economical way to create a one to one student to computer ratio. The iPad can be used in all of the classes offered within a high school, and can be used anywhere paper and pencil are utilized. In the mathematics classroom, students could watch videos of teachers solving problems. The students would be able to view the same problem as many times as it takes for the student to achieve mastery. In the science classroom a student could view a dissection and learn how to properly dissect a specimen before ever taking a scalpel in hand. The student in history class can visit historic places without ever leaving his or her hometown. The iPad can enrich the academic lives of the students at a very low cost per student.==== ====Schools are always concerned with costs. The iPad 2 cost approximately $500 a piece. All of the student textbooks could be loaded onto the iPad and used by the students. The cost of replacing a lost, broken, or stolen iPad could be the parent’s responsibility, just like it is the parent’s responsibility to pay for a lost, stolen, or damaged textbook. If a parent opts out of the student being allowed to use the technology, then the student could be placed into classes that do not utilize the technology.==== ====There are many uses of the technology. The iPad can act as an oral reader for the students who have trouble decoding the written word. The ELL student can use it as a digidictionary for their native language and a translator for their native language to English. The students who are sight impaired and must have large print; the iPad can enlarge the print size as needed. The schools can use the iPad in a myriad of ways.====
 * The iPad:**
 * Enhances** – computing within the traditional classroom.
 * Retrieves/Rekindles** – children’s pop up storybooks, games, and stories told by families
 * Obsoletes** – the laptop and desktop
 * Reverses** – the phone will eventually replace the iPad

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**Holly,**

Thank you for sharing the various ways of practical i-Pad usage. Indeed, there are myriads ways to use one. In my case, I use one as a video cam. When I teach presentation skills, I usually film each practice presentation with iPad so that I can show the video right away for feedback. Students actually can learn a lot by observing their own presentation on the screen with appropriate feedback from instructor. Incidentally, threre is a shocking news concering an ipad; South Korea has made an announcement that all school children will be provided with PC tablet by the year 2015. The purpose of this plan is to provide every student, even ones from low-income families, with the access to online learning resources as well as digital textbooks to help them learng in the coming era. The government subsidize $2 billion (USD) on this scheme. How astonishing, isn't it? The article can be reached on the link below: []

//** Yoshio Kamakura **// //**Vince Hill**// //**Technology: podcasts**// //**Enhances: communication with students (in and out of school)**// //**Obsoletes: books on tape/CD's, VHS recordings of projects**// //**Retrieves/rekindles: one on one teacher student interaction. Tutoring sessions to get re-teaching**// //**Reverses: traditional methods of teaching. More student directed instead of teacher directed**// //**﻿**// The world around us is changing and will always change. Change is inevitable, especially within the 21st century. In being a professional educator I have many tools to help me each and every day in teaching my students. However, there are some technologies out there today that really push the envelope and help teachers do there jobs much better and easier due to there abilities. In this application I will share a technology that is emerging and create a tetrad to help explain its’ role and function within the 21st century educational world. The emerging technology that I chose to create a tetrad for is podcasts. Podcasts are basic audio files that can be uploaded to sites for numerous purposes within our society. Podcasts are not super new to our technological world; however, I feel that they are new and emerging to classrooms around America. The first section of a tetrad what it enhances. I feel that podcasts enhance the ability to communicate information for students, teachers, and parents alike. Podcasts allow students to learn in a way that they are best wired to process information (Christensen& Horn, 2008). I just think of how many students I see come into school and leave school with their ear buds in listening to their ipods.Many educators have found that when students create content for a larger audience (beyond their classroom walls); they have more interest and motivation to work harder to improve the quality of their work (Wikia,2011). In creating podcasts, it taps into an existing technology that they are very familiar with. In using podcasts in and out of the classroom, I as a teacher will be allowing my students to be involved in their learning and to learn in a different way that wasn’t present before. In the past, classrooms have had cassette tapes and CD’s to listen to primarily based around literature books. However, it is hard to find a technology that podcasts make obsolete. It could replace the audio recordings of students reading famous speeches for history class, or VHS recordings of news casts for a project. In the end though, the realm of the possible uses of podcasts is endless. They provide so many opportunities for learning, engagement, and motivation that wasn’t present with past technologies. In thinking about the past, I feel that I do not have enough experience in the field of education to know about past initiatives and mandates the field of education has experienced. I do not know if that is good or bad, but I do feel that in my 8 years of experience podcasts rekindle the idea of reteaching and enrichment for students within the classroom. As a teacher, the idea of reteaching is not a new idea. However, it is an idea that is hard to manage within the classroom with 26 students. What will the others do? Who will monitor them? How long will it last? With the idea of using podcasts within this area, a teacher will be able to possibly record lessons, activities, enrichment, and remedial lessons for students to access at school or at home to help them in their learning. It also retrieves the idea of those one on one tutoring sessions that some students need to help reinforce specific ideas within the classroom. The last area within the tetrad is what reverses can we see due to this emerging technology. In the future I think that podcasts might change the ways teachers and students share information in and out of class. In doing so I think the adverse effects of this type of technology will have an effect on teachers, students, and parents. I can see lessons being prerecorded and then used within the lessons in differentiated stations to help designated students through the content. These podcasts could also lend themselves to being over taken my video casts within the classroom to help teach content to the students. In ending, podcasts can and will provide great changes within classrooms in the days, months, and years to come. The ability of podcasts to extend the learning beyond the walls of the classroom make it an emerging technology that all schools have and will adopt to help them meet the needs of all students. //**﻿**//