Hick's Response:
In the article "No Longer a Luxury: Digital Literacy Can’t Wait", the importance and pros and cons of the use of technology in educational environment are explored.
In the article, five points were addressed on this topic, Counting Slides, Using a Blog Without Blogging, Criticizing Digital Talk, Asking (only) Questions That Can Be Answered by a Search Engine and Using “Cool” Technology to Deliver a Planned Lesson, but the one that grabbed my attention most, was the paragraph on Counting Slides.
Points discussed for the Counting Slides paragraph explained how having certain restrictions on oral presentation can be effective but also how giving suggestions of openness to the amount of slides being used for developed presentation. Hicks stated that "Rather than focusing on content—and developing an appropriate message—the assignments focus on the most basic elements of form: the things that can be counted." I agree with this point because creativity as well as effectiveness in the presentation is based off of more than just presenting information. You can have a lot of slides for example, but lack creative structure and and smooth transitions, so it drags on without interest but can use a shorter amount of slides and get right to the point with just enough images for an effective and engaging presentation.
Class Take Away 9/10/18:
In comparison of Hick's article and applying the standards or teaching and engaging in technological tools in an educational environment, I feel that it is the teachers responsibility to not only help teach his or her students the importance of balance in using these tools. For example, if the classroom consist of children of a young age, then the devices should only be provided as a aid or augmentation of a book or reading/math program. This is because you don't want to lose the social aspect of interaction between your students, while developing skills in technical enhancing tools.
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