Technology is becoming easier to integrate into my classroom. I am excited about trying to use technology, and I've been incorporating some ideas from class (socrative, digital stories, etc.).
The midterm helped me to cement some of my ideas about sociocultural theory. One idea I'm still working through is the idea that technology changes the way we think. How can that be? I mean, on one hand, I totally get it. I do think that I try to access information via mental "folders" in the same way that I store documents. I feel like my brain has a search function. But has the technology changed this, or was have our brains been this way forever?
It's easier for me to accept the other major tenant of sociocultural theory--the need for social learning. I'm drawn to the idea of making the ZPD work for us. Interactions in the ZPD have the potential to be well-scaffolded for the learner and to have value in the negotiation of meaning. I appreciated DuBravac's distinction between Krashen's i+1 (focused only on the learner's ability) and the ZPD (socially-oriented and involving all participants' abilties).
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