Live From Mars was active July 1996-December 1997.
What I Bring to the Table
When asked what I could contribute to the Live From field trips, I
immediately thought of
the first-time teachers struggling, as I had, to integrate cyberspace into
their classroom
environments. My goal here is to produce a document that will assist
beginners in
handling their first electronic field trip.
Who? - Hello Beginners!
This document is designed for the first-timer, beginner, newbie,
never-been-there- nor-
done-that participant of an electronic field trip. You are involved in
education, down on the
ground, in the classroom, whether as a student, parent, teacher, community
and/or
business volunteer. I speak to educators for mechanical convenience in
the production of
this document, but everyone is encouraged to come along on a trip of
discovery making
learning powerful and alive.
Prerequisites
This document will provide hands-on activities and resources that the
beginner can order or access right away. The prescribed actions assume
ready and easy access to the Internet.
People not yet using the Internet can take advantage, now, of this type of
educational
opportunity. This can be accomplished with ready and easy access to the
following
resources: phone, VCR, TV, Fax, snail mail and/or Fed X-type carriers.
Of course, a functional and practical understanding of your particular
technology tool set is
needed. Taking on a new educational technology is not the occasion to
be learning many
new skills at the same time, unless, of course, you do not also have a
life.
Institutions rhetorically endorse technology in education. But at this
time, down in the
classroom, the teacher is getting little support. At this point in time
most of what I do is
done on my own time. The odd stipend finds its way to my checkbook, but
that is an
exception. To wit, the activity of running an electronic field trip in
the classroom is part of
a teachers personal adoption of technology in education, a fact of life
that defines you as an
innovator in your school, district, region, state or country.
An Introduction to Electronic Field Trips
(for teachers new to the concept)
Written by Scott Coletti, Middle School teacher
Crittenden Middle School, Mtn.View, CA.
Please send suggestions or comments to scolett@quest.arc.nasa.gov
Personal Adoption of Technology in Education as a Way of Life
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