Education+Meets+Technology

TimeToast Online Timeline Creator
//The Evolution of Technology and Education//

*﻿﻿[] Jeffrey Felcan
I liked timetoast. The thing I liked most about it was that it was very interactive; you could put pictures and links in it. The only thing I do not care for is that if you need it for a presentation of some sort and there is no internet access, then it wouldnt be feasable.

Although, I am not sure I got all of the dates right, but it seems to me that when the first computers came out, it took a long time for us to consistantly use them in our schools. The same thing goes for the theories; when they were first publicized, it took a long time for use to really look at these theories and use some of them in our daily teaching. This is a great tool to use in the classroom. It really shows the events as they happened and you can add pictures as you please to really capture the events as they happend.

Teresamarie - TimeToast link: [] I really enjoy viewing the timeline as a list rather than an interactive visual. It is helpful that there are 2 ways to access the material. This could be especially useful for students. After comparing the progress in technology with the varying philosophies of education, one can see a lot of overlap. It is interesting to see how some of the philosophies seem to directly follow what is happening in technology. The instance where this seemed to stand out most to me is the discussion of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s Information Processing Theory coming a few short years after the first computer is used at MIT. It is interesting that following the introduction of computers to the classroom that these men tried to compare the brains of children to the processing system of these computers.

Beth's Timetoast link:[| http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/108050] The only thing I really didn't like about Timetoast is that you couldn't select just years-you had to put in dates even though you didn't want to. For example all of mine have a start date of like Jan.1st or something. I do like the list feature as mentioned above. I think I messed up the instructions given. I put the wrong information in the philosophy part, but overall I enjoyed the experience. My only other criticism is that by simply plugging in dates to a timeline, students might not be challenged. The assignment would have to include more to it than just plugging dates- things such as analysis, or compare and contrast.

Patrice's Timetoast link: [] I think Timetoast is a very creative tool to chronologically list events!! I like how images can also be tied into the timeline. I enjoyed learning about and seeing the connections and overlaps between the evolution of computers with Educational philosophies and philosophers.

Ryan's Timetoast link: []

I feel like some of my psychologists are in the wrong place as well, but a trend I can see is the application of technology to fit the current popular philosophy of psychology at that time. Like now, multiple intelligences could be read as "information overload", trying to hit all the learners all the time. While this is not the appropriate way to apply the multiple intelligence theory in the classroom, a lot of teachers do it. What is more overloaded with information than the internet? The same can be shown with training via computer matched with the dominant behaviorist theory and computers being introduced into the classroom when Piaget's theory was popular, fitting the type of learning to the stage the students should be in. I think that timetoast could be a good tool in the classroom, in an assignment similar to the one we did where we make a timeline and apply our findings to a bigger idea. Just the timeline is less useful, but this is way better than cutting and drawing timelines on paper... so boring.

July Miranda's link: [] Time toast was a great new tool to use. I like the fact that we were able to download different pictures that we feel would be more appropriate to our individual classrooms. I also like the fact that when you pointed at a each different time frame you could get all the information from that year by clinking on the right corner.

[|Katy Hutchinson's Timeline] Timetoast was a fun, visual way to look at the correlation between educational theorists and technology. I found it somewhat frustrating that I was unable to be more general in the dates or use links to outside websites in the comments about the individual events. I also had a difficult time as my timeline got more full. I agree with my classmates that requiring some analysis would be necessary to encourage higher order thinking about the relationship between events.

Alison Timetoast: [] I think I might have some dates wrong, but I really enjoyed using this tool.

[|Lara Spy's timetoaster:] I think this would be a fun tool for students to use, I agree with classroom discussion of events and their correlations to each other as being vital for student comprehension. I was also frustrated that you must put a month and day and not just year in each of the events.

[|Kim's Timetoast] This seemed like a nice way to show students some dates on a timeline, I wouldn't have even thought of doing it this way. I do have to agree with Lara about the month and day aspect....for some events, it's impossible to narrow it down that much.

[|Billy's Timetoast] I agree that this is a nice tool. Some of the usability was not totally obvious to me at first, like inserting time periods, but eventually I figured it out.