Response to "Elaborate on Transformational Teaching"

ELABORATE on Transformational Teaching:

The presentation (Putting the Pedagogy Wheel to Work.) is driven by the very simple notion that instruction should drive technology-use and not the other way around. Technology shouldn't just be used because it's new and exciting and, therefore, seems like it will magically make instruction suddenly better.

The presentation focuses on the idea of the "pedagogy wheel", which helps breakdown what the creator of the presentation feels is the best pairing of instruction with technology. It matches technology with the purposes, standards, and skills that each type of technology (with an emphasis on apps, the kind associated with iPads) most capable of supporting instruction. For instance, the wheel makes considerations of how Bloom's Taxonomy fits into the picture of technology integration.

The whole point of transformation teaching/the pedagogy wheel is authentic assessment. In theory, instruction will be more thoroughly aligned with the methods of assessment. Each will feel of a piece of one another, and this should encourage students to see the purpose and value of what they are learning and doing. This, in turn, will help increase student motivation; that will then help promote student learning and the development of students' abilities. The presentation repeatedly breaks down the hopes of what it wants students to be able to take away from this sort of instruction into three words of: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.

Ultimately, this will hopefully all mean that students will be better prepared for the real world. Now that sounds likely a pretty worthy goal.