Lenovo is my BFF!

My Lenovo is the best device I ever had. I use it everyday for everything with teaching and learning. It is so easy for me to upload/download and check my work and my student’s assignments  through Google Classroom. I also used it to document my student’s group task performance especially during the implementation of my KFP curriculum. I like the idea that it is a tablet and also a PC. It is so handy and I can carry it anywhere with me. Thank you Lenovo!

I used Edmodo as my class’ “social learning platform”.  My students and their parents prefer to use this type of “social learning platform” because they find it safer for their children to collaborate among their peers or classmates  like Facebook for my class. Also, I used Edmodo to post our class’ assignments, calendar of activities, quizzes and surveys. I also encourage my students to collaborate online using Edmodo.

I am very cautious with the use of social media in teaching and learning because some of my students are not allowed by their parents to create any social media account. Some parents  felt that their child is not ready or maybe not responsible in posting pictures, personal images or messages online.

Personally, I think that this generation of learners in our classroom is comfortable with the use of social media in their daily life. As educators, I think that it is our responsibility to teach this generation on how to carefully and responsibly use social media daily.

I consider technology as a tool to engage students on a creative level. My students use tablets and software applications in creating project-based learning science activities. Quite frankly, these activities helped my students become more critical thinkers.

On the other hand, The use of technology in the classroom creates a lot of challenge to students and teachers. One of the biggest challenge is to teach students on how to become responsible technology innovators in the classroom. It is a difficult challenge for a teacher to teach students about taking extra care on how to use and apply technology as a tool for learning.

Honestly, I spend more time re-teaching, monitoring and advising students to use and apply technology for the purpose of learning only. With this, I do consider it as a recurring challenge every time I integrate the use of technology in the classroom.