Teachnology 2020: My Journey from Tech-savvy to Tech-skilled

Teachnology 2020: My Journey from Tech-savvy to Tech-skilled

Rezwana Islam (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh)

We live in a time when navigating through social media is second to living. Will it be the same if you have to use the private comment section in Google classroom to ask a question? Now close your eyes and imagine teaching in the classroom. You teach, give homework with instructions about submission mode and use classroom projector, consultation time, human peers or digital peers. Suddenly, with Covid -19, this collaborative process becomes autonomous. Now open your eyes which meet your colleague’s eyes, sleepy but conscious in a zoom meeting. You can see me. My days start by customizing content for online interaction. Then I find both computer and mobile friendly web application for the lesson. I give assessment task, teach how to complete it and motivate learners to use apps for completion and submission. With the constant updates of educational apps, they may struggle. So, I need to know how learners see the task in LMS (Learning Management system). My back and forth journey involves juggling between teaching content, teaching method and online resources or trying the TPACK (Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge) (Koehler & Mishra, 2006) model. From big steps like getting a demo student account in Google classroom, making video tutorials in native language to add concept checking questions before every online task and sharing class meet link post with small happy messages; I try every possible way to help my learners. This presentation will show my journey from being tech-savvy to tech-skilled through a power-point.

References:

Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2006). Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers college record, 108(6), 1017-1054.

Taylor, J. (2014,September 25). Tech Savvy Doesn't Mean Tech Skilled. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-power-prime/201409/tech-savvy-doesnt-mean-tech-skilled