Dr. Alice A. Christie, Arizona State University President’s Professor Emeritus, received her Ph.D. in Educational Technology and Language and Literacy from Arizona State University in 1995. She served in the College of Teacher Education and Leadership at Arizona State University from 1995 until her recent retirement. Prior to this, she taught for twenty-five years in K-12 schools.
I viewed Dr. Alice Christie's Video: We Are All Co-Learners under the educational technology link. I found this video very interesting that there were jr. interns working right along with regular interns. There was one intern that had been working with her since right after he was in eight grade. I think this is a wonderful way for students to teach kids but like was said on the video to also actually learn from the Jr. interns.
It is so important for teachers to listen and learn from there students so they can use whatever technology that is available and will interest the student to get them to learn. I think her website will be SO useful to me as a teacher because she has needless ideas about how to stimulate children's minds.
Educational Technology
iTunesU
iTunes U, part of the iTunes Store, is possibly the world’s greatest collection of free educational media available to students, teachers, and lifelong learners. With over 200,000 educational audio and video files available, iTunes U has quickly become the engine for the mobile learning movement. It puts the power of the iTunes Store in the hands of qualifying universities so they can distribute their educational media to their students or to the world.
I can't even begin to tell you how interesting iTunesU has become for me. I just can't stop watching the videos and listening to the podcasts. One of the ones I thought was interesting under K-12 Teachers TV about Literacy . This video was about literacy in Britain and how (like in the USA) we don't have enough time in the classroom to properly help kids with language and literacy problems because we have to focus so much on teaching kids to take the proper test they have to take. It is such a shame that kids these days are pushed so fast that sometimes kids are overlooked.
iPods for Duke University Students
As part of a university initiative to encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life, Duke distributed 20GB Apple® iPod devices, each equipped with Belkin® Voice Recorders, to over 1600 entering first‐year students in August 2004.
Benefits of academic iPod use
• Convenience for both faculty and students of portable digital course content, and reduced dependence on physical materials
• Flexible location‐independent access to digital multimedia course materials, including reduced dependence on lab or library locations and hours
• Effective and easy‐to‐use tool for digital recording of interviews, field notes, small group discussions, and self‐recording of oral assignments
• Greater student engagement and interest in class discussions, labs, field research, and independent projects
• Enhanced support for individual learning preferences and needs
I think was a great idea and the data received proves that the current technology that students are already using would be helpful in their studies. So come on schools WAKE UP!!
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