Technology and Partnering
Verbs and Nouns
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Como hacerlo en la práctica:
Colegio La Milagrosa, Salamanca
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Verbs and Nouns
Whatever level, type, or brand of partnering you choose, you will be working with students who are using some level of digital technology to find the answers to their guiding questions.
Digital technology is the great facilitator that lies behind the renaissance of the partnering pedagogy in the 21st century, and although partnering can be done with whatever level of technology is available in your classroom (even none), the more technology that is available to students, the better partnering almost always goes. Having students make maximum use of whatever technology is available in your classroom is a required part of partnering. But two important questions still arise:
1. How do you partner using whatever types of technology are (and are not) available in your school and classroom?
2. How do you prevent technology from taking over the essentials that you are trying to teach?
The best way to answer both of these questions is to think in terms of verbs and nouns for learning.
Verbs are the skills (habilidades, competencias) that students need to learn, practice, and master. They include all the traditional things we want students to be able to do in the context of the content. Whatever subject we teach, we want students to be proficient at such verbs as thinking critically, presenting logically, communicating, making decisions, being rigorous, understanding content and context, and persuading. Verbs are, in a sense, the -underlying- learning, and pedagogy is typically about verbs, i.e., how to provide students with the subject-specific and general skills they need.
What is extremely important to note that the verbs important for learning do not change (or change very little) over time.
Nouns, on the other hand, are the tools students use to learn to do, or practice, the verbs.
Nouns include such traditional tools as books and essays as well as more 21st century tools such as the Internet. Nouns are the way people generally think of technology: computers, PowerPoint, Wikipedia, etc. Nouns include both hardware and software—the actual technologies available to your students.
Most books on using technology in the classroom begin with the particular technologies (i.e., nouns) currently available, such as podcasts, wikis, or blogs, and explain how each one can be used for teaching different subjects. But nouns are only a means to an end.
And unlike learning verbs, learning nouns change increasingly frequently.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PowerPoint, for example, is a tool (noun) for presenting (verb). But it will likely be replaced in our students‘ lifetimes (and is already being replaced in many places) by Flash and other, better, presentation tools. E-mail is a tool for communicating. But it has already been replaced, among many students, by texting and even Twitter. (E-mail is for old people, say many students.) Wikipedia is a tool for learning. But it is being supplanted (or supplemented) by tools like YouTube and advanced search.
Como hacerlo en la práctica:
Colegio La Milagrosa, Salamanca
Los Roles:
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