Today I checked out the blog of Jose' Picardo. He is the head of the languages department at Nottingham High School according to his site. I am very impressed by the way he has chosen to better his students lives through the use of technology that they already use. He educates with a knowledge of what his charges like, he uses it to help get their attention and respond positively. He uses their music and games to give them a way to express themselves and learn by doing.
On his site we see a fantastic list of blogs that Picardo himself reads and follows. Many of these blogs I also have read and enjoyed in the course EDM310. He has truly tapped into a vein of technology and has effectively used it to teach. He also has given us some fantastic advice in his you tube video called "Top Ten Tips for Using Technology in the Classroom" embedded below. In his top ten list he gives us great ways that we may not have even thought about to incorporate technology into the students lives. He uses their own tech to educate them and his students love it.
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