Friday, June 11, 2010
Google Earth
I looked at google earth this week and really saw how it could be useful and beneficial in my classroom. Since I want to teach in an urban setting, I know I will have many students from differen countries and cities with different backgrounds and stories. Google Earth could be beneficial because I could use it to show different countries and places that my students came from. This would be great for awareness and understanding as well as geography of different places my students come from. With the option to look at the land with satellite it could even work for a science class when talking about different types of land and earth.
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I have only played on google earth a bit, basically just to see my own house and other interesting areas, but I agree with you that it could be extremely beneficial in a classroom. Technology for many seems to be a big monster and trying to incorporate it into a classroom just seems like one more thing to add on to a teacher's never ending list. But what I am realizing, as I read yours and other posts of how they would incorporate technology, is that it really is it not about the technology at all. It is about the content being enhanced by the technology. All of your ideas of how to incorporate it are really good. I especially like how you thought of using it to show where your students come from. Often books and media portrays certain countries or continents, especially Africa, as one particular thing. Being able to see that it is not all "Lion King" and people actually live there and that parts of it are developed, are great things for any student to realize.
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