Your blog was very well organized and full of information on the growing emerging trend of wearable technology. After reading about how it started and where it has progressed, it makes me wonder what they will create next. Students these days take technology for granted, because they have grown up with it, unlike myself. I am looking forward to my teaching career and being able to implement some of these technologies in the classroom to benefit the learning of my students.
Casey, Great blog. Thank-you for sharing the information about Google glass! This is an exciting piece of technology and I can see myself using this as a teaching tool in my clinical courses. Currently I use the iPad to video skills, but it requires someone to hold the iPad these glasses would open up endless possibilities!
Casey - I was very intrigued by your blog. I have seen wearable technology - but not yet in my classroom. I was fascinated by the idea of Google Glass - can you image having the funds to "take" a class on a virtual field trip!? How amazing that would be!
I have seen many teachers with FitBits - not yet students. What a great tool for physical education teachers to monitor students - maybe even athletes. I can see high school students who are a bit more health aware finding these technologies more helpful and interesting.
Grace-- I can definitely agree that students often take technology for granted because they grew up with so much of it. At the same time, however, I don't think they even realize the potential many technologies have because they tend to use them for social purposes. I think that one of the advantages to wearable technologies-- at least the ones that ar currently being used-- is that they have so much potential for a variety of uses, so teachers could repurpose them depending on the subject area. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi, Casey! I was quite intrigued with the topic of your blog, and you have done a fabulous job researching it. It made perfect sense to find out that so much of the wearable technology that we have today was inspired by things that had been part of television and cinema through the years. What type of wearable technology would you say will have the greatest impact on education in the near future? I couldn't begin to offer a guess...
Cait-- I think the concept of a virtual field trip is one of my favorite aspects of wearable technology. I am constantly trying to find trips and experiences for my students, and the ability to "go" somewhere we are learning about or "meet" someone they are learning about without leaving the classroom is so intriguing to me.
Rodney-- It's so difficult to say which wearable technology will become the "future" of our classrooms, although I would love the chance to try out Google Glass in my classroom! I love the idea of being able to connect to the world so easily with my students and this technology truly merges the virtual technological world with the "real" world. Classrooms would definitely be interesting if we had that much access to information exactly when we needed it.
Like many of my peers, I too found Google Glass to be promising, especially in terms of virtual field trips. Last fall, my class was scheduled to go on a field trip to the pumpkin patch, but the trip was unfortunately rained out and there was no time to make it up prior to the patch closing for the season. So we were out of luck. To help reduce my students' disappointment, we had a make-believe field trip in my classroom that day. I showed YouTube videos about how pumpkins grow, and we "went to" pumpkin school, and also had a pretend pumpkin patch where they all got to choose their own little mini pumpkin that we decorated before the day was over. It was a good day after all, but just imagine what I could have done with Google Glass!
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Your blog was very well organized and full of information on the growing emerging trend of wearable technology. After reading about how it started and where it has progressed, it makes me wonder what they will create next. Students these days take technology for granted, because they have grown up with it, unlike myself. I am looking forward to my teaching career and being able to implement some of these technologies in the classroom to benefit the learning of my students.
Casey,
Great blog. Thank-you for sharing the information about Google glass! This is an exciting piece of technology and I can see myself using this as a teaching tool in my clinical courses. Currently I use the iPad to video skills, but it requires someone to hold the iPad these glasses would open up endless possibilities!
Casey -
I was very intrigued by your blog. I have seen wearable technology - but not yet in my classroom. I was fascinated by the idea of Google Glass - can you image having the funds to "take" a class on a virtual field trip!? How amazing that would be!
I have seen many teachers with FitBits - not yet students. What a great tool for physical education teachers to monitor students - maybe even athletes. I can see high school students who are a bit more health aware finding these technologies more helpful and interesting.
Thanks for teaching me some new things!
Grace-- I can definitely agree that students often take technology for granted because they grew up with so much of it. At the same time, however, I don't think they even realize the potential many technologies have because they tend to use them for social purposes. I think that one of the advantages to wearable technologies-- at least the ones that ar currently being used-- is that they have so much potential for a variety of uses, so teachers could repurpose them depending on the subject area. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi, Casey! I was quite intrigued with the topic of your blog, and you have done a fabulous job researching it. It made perfect sense to find out that so much of the wearable technology that we have today was inspired by things that had been part of television and cinema through the years. What type of wearable technology would you say will have the greatest impact on education in the near future? I couldn't begin to offer a guess...
Cait--
I think the concept of a virtual field trip is one of my favorite aspects of wearable technology. I am constantly trying to find trips and experiences for my students, and the ability to "go" somewhere we are learning about or "meet" someone they are learning about without leaving the classroom is so intriguing to me.
Rodney--
It's so difficult to say which wearable technology will become the "future" of our classrooms, although I would love the chance to try out Google Glass in my classroom! I love the idea of being able to connect to the world so easily with my students and this technology truly merges the virtual technological world with the "real" world. Classrooms would definitely be interesting if we had that much access to information exactly when we needed it.
Like many of my peers, I too found Google Glass to be promising, especially in terms of virtual field trips. Last fall, my class was scheduled to go on a field trip to the pumpkin patch, but the trip was unfortunately rained out and there was no time to make it up prior to the patch closing for the season. So we were out of luck. To help reduce my students' disappointment, we had a make-believe field trip in my classroom that day. I showed YouTube videos about how pumpkins grow, and we "went to" pumpkin school, and also had a pretend pumpkin patch where they all got to choose their own little mini pumpkin that we decorated before the day was over. It was a good day after all, but just imagine what I could have done with Google Glass!
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