Hello fellow educators!!! I'm Graduate student in the United States and we have an assignment to interview educators from other countries to see how they use Technology in education. If you would like to participate please do!!! I also would really like if their are educators from Brazil!
Thanks,
Kathryn Riddick
Interview Questions
- Is there a digital divide amongst students and schools?
- How is the integration of technology funded?
- Is professional development mandated or optional? And are teachers reluctant to taking professional development?
- Are you currently using Global Educational Networks to connect students globally?
- How has the use of technology changed the way you teach?
- How has technology impacted your students learning? In what ways? Any specific situations?
- What is the most popular technology tool integrated into your school and how does it impact the students' learning?
- Is there a technology tool you wish to use in your classroom in the near future? What is it and how do you think you will use it effectively?
- When integrating technology into the class what kind of impact do you notice that it has on the students' behavior, motivation, participation, and thinking level?
10. Where do students have access to technology and how often do you integrate technology into the classroom?
11. What type of professional development do you as an educator receive concerning technology?
Replies
Ask your questions to educators in 200 countries through ePals. http://www.epals.com
More than 1,000 educators from Brazil at: http://www.epals.com/esearch/?st=bs&cou=br
YOU have to join the ePals Global Community (free) and enter your profile before you can communicate with anyone there...just as you had to join this Ning community to post something here.
You could post your questions in the Teacher Forum and see what kind of answers you get. You could also target specific teachers to ask your questions and send them email. (You could target teachers in Brazil who speak English. Or allow the teachers to use automatic language translation embedded in the site to translate to Portuguese.)
In addition, you might read to get answers to some of your questions from the case studies of global collaboration, called Teacher Spotlight:
http://www.epals.com/blogs/teacherspotlight/archive/tags/Teacher+Sp...
Some excellent examples from ePals Teacher Ambassadors also:
http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?divid=TeacherContest2010-Re...