Innovations Education

ICT and academic motivation
Technopedagogy is a neologism adopted by the world of education, which reflects an unavoidable reality in the twenty-first century: the integration of ICT into pedagogy. In Quebec, we shamefully realize that the school dropout rate hovers around 30%, despite the fact that governments claim to want to reduce it and are taking a series of measures to achieve it, which, very sadly, prove to be true. little fruitful.

Also, there is a significant divide between digital natives, this new generation of trendy and technologically competent students. They have fallen into the potion and adopt a digital lifestyle, not to say virtual. In contrast, we find teachers, parents who use their devices, in many cases, in an incomplete way. They use them for their primary function (a camera for taking a photo, a cell phone for making calls, etc.). They often consider these devices to be gadgets. These digital immigrants partially integrate ICT into their lives, but nothing more, unlike the youngest who use them fully.

Technopedagogy is thus intended to bring these two solitudes together around a unifying pedagogical strategy, maximized by teachers anxious to renew their professional practice in order to adapt it to the new realities of their clientele, made up of students motivated to learn differently. .

According to studies by Thierry Karsenti , holder of the Research Chair on ICT in Education , there is a direct positive link between the integration of ICT in pedagogy and academic motivation. It appears that the modification of the school context does indeed have an important role to play with school perseverance. Among others, we are talking about:

• Realization of mobilizing learning placing the student at the heart of the action;
• Creation of a renewed creative space for both the student and the teacher. In a way, it is the return of

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We just read a short article on an American blog called AlwaysPrepped , or always prepared (in the sense of preparation or educational planning). Short, but full of common sense because it refers to 7 essential characteristics of the technopedagogue teacher. Also, we remind you that, according to the benchmark of 12 professional skills among Quebec teachers, skill # 8 is unequivocal: integrate information and communications technologies for the preparation and management of teaching activities. -learning, teaching management and professional development. 

Here are these seven characteristics, translated into French and updated to date:

1. They aim for a specific goal using technological toolsAt no time are they using technology just to use it. They do it with a goal in mind or use it to deploy a strategy. Technology is a tool at the service of pedagogy and its educator and not the other way around.

2. They are flexible and demonstrate good adaptability

Obviously, they are flexible and are able to adapt to technological innovations. They know full well that they will have to adapt to new tools in two or three years. But this prospect does not frighten them, on the contrary. They are stimulated by this situation since they see the possibilities of being better performing teachers, providing higher quality education.

The idea of ​​having to revise their course planning as well as their lessons never frightens them since they have never maintained a perception of teaching as being static and immune from the inevitable updates of their own development. professional.

3. They are open to change

For them, change is an intoxicating opportunity to do different things and it’s a new opportunity to surpass themselves. They don’t experience change, they generate it. In times of instability, they are driving forces and positively influence the restrictive forces, more resistant to change. These teachers are   Read the rest

Explain effectively, with few words

Here is an interesting tool that allows students and teachers to work differently. Thanks to Popplet, students can organize their thinking in a different way by using images, drawings, videos to demonstrate concepts specific to a theme. The popular expression holds that a picture is worth a thousand words. Popplet understood this. For each image or bubble, there is the possibility of adding a few words that can justify the idea or specify the links between two bubbles.

What I see as potential, in the first place, is certainly the decrease in the need to write and use words to describe a concept, a situation. It is the art of linking the schematic and the concise and applying it to all possible and imaginable educational sauces. Because today, it is no longer true that students have to write work which, page after page, describes a reality.

Understand, Popplet allows you to give real importance to words without using them. Should this internet application replace the good old dissertations or more theoretical essays? NO ! It’s like any other educational tool or strategy. It should be used alternately and sparingly so that the interest and relevance of using it with students remains high.

Learn to work in a team

Beyond the question of the graphic organization of information, there is the whole question of sharing and the possibility of accomplishing real collaborative work among students (and teachers). By creating a Popplet, we can give access to colleagues who contribute to the work by inviting them. Each contribution is identified with the name of the user who added your two cents. It’s fantastic! More than I did all the work on my own or did nothing ! Easily, it is possible to transfer and edit the document so that it always remains current and relevant. Popplet makes it possible to become the technopedagogical   Read the rest