Will digitizing assignments improve my teaching, work, and organization?
Pros:
- Encourages digital citizenship (identity and etiquette)
- Encourages students to navigate and explore the latest tools & Web 2.0
- Encourages students to digitally apply ESL skills
- Encourages students to utilize ESL resources online
- Students can interact & collaborate with peers from homes
- Self assessment & anonymous peer assessment
- Teachers can interact with students & parents from their homes
- Supports students who miss assignments & class notes
- Efficient and quick assignment submission
- Helps keep students & teachers stay organized
- Cost efficient & Eco Friendly
- Dog can’t eat your paper homework
Cons:
- Not all students may have the hardware or reliable internet sources at home
- Not all families may have the finances to support some high tech requirements
- Formatting, computer bugs, surprising updates
- Could be more of an obstacle or distraction than a learning enhancement
- Possible loss of 1:1 face time
- Less practice with handwriting
- Dog could still destroy the hard drive
More Tips & Insight from Professor Steve Katz:
Hey Patty,
I like the list format that lays out the ups and downs of a digital classroom. Hopefully, the schools of the future will supply the students with the tech necessary to facilitate digital literacy, if only on-site. I read an article that said the UN announced that blocking internet access was denying a basic human right. Interesting to see where this will take us.
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