Teachers “throw away your oars and fly”
“By using *Edrofoil to fly” How?
Currently, rowing with the tide of educational technology resources means, for most schools, they all have the tablets, youtube, gmails, online resources, gamified learning, etc, BUT has this helped teachers in the classroom! Has this reduced lesson planning time! Has this improved teachers wellbeing! Has this created deeper learning opportunities!
To be able to “throw away your oars and fly” would be to truly and effectively, identify and implement educational resources that achieve that dream of progressing learners to higher order thinking.
Not all Edtech or educational technology achieves that goal of deeper learning pedagogy within its digital modules and learning areas. In order to fly in this saturated and complex edtech environment, teachers need to know how to assess and qualify the digital resources they allow into their classrooms.
Rowing through lots of digital resources, using trial and error, will slowdown and impact on the learning of your students and chew up valuable lesson planning time. Many are just as effective as previous analog learning resources, and maybe that’s ok, but wouldn’t a well thought out, well planned and truly deeper learning digital resource be better to take its place! (digital resources like www.afedsquad.co.nz are a good example of lesson planning with deeper learning in mind). Help your students to fly and you will soar together.
This book and article link below is a great starting point. https://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2018/09/our-new-book-harnessing-technology-for-deeper-learning-was-released-today.html
*Edrofoil – flying over the water is called “hydrofoil” but in education we have coined it “edrofoil”
