I think photo sharing could be incorporated into an educational activity by allowing the students to learn from another medium. Words can only express so much to a student. It's hard to explain the Mayan ruins but to show a student pictures is a great way of letting pictures doing the talking. Not only does a picture say a 1,000 words but it also breaks up the monotony of a student hear an instructor lecture.
The main concern with students using images is first of all copyrights law and that the student has no ownernship of those images. Then I think you would have to live in a hole not to realize how many adult websites there are on the internet and how easily students can access them. As a result of that I think any instructor has to take a hard look at an assignment where students must find any type of images.
A great benefit of image services would be reaching a wider variety of students. I know as a high school student myself as much as someone explained something to me it really didn't make sense until I saw a picture or diagram. So for a visual learner it makes learning that much easier.
I personally have never created a lesson plan so this was a little out of place for me. However, the ADDIE process really stuck with me because it can be taken out of this context and use elsewhere. Even taking it into an athletic realm that I work on ADDIE is a great tool. For example lets say the athletic department wanted to create a new regulation making it mandatory for all student athletes to take 16 credits. The first step would be A analyzing and deciding why the need for student athletes to produce more academically was needed. Then there would be a D design on how this new system would work and still allow the student athletes to have practice and travel time. Then D for develops there would need to develop new regulations on how student athletes would choose majors and minors. Then would be I the Implement process and that is when this program would be implemented and how soon it would be implemented. If the process is stopped before the implementation it would produce no results. Finally the last process would be to evaluate after the process has been implemented and that is really the best way to analyze if your process has worked.
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Matt
I agree with students being exposed to another medium for photo sharing, but to be quite honest, they are exposed to it on their own. Just like MySpace, Facebook, etc; they figure it out on their own. When it involves images and creativity, they are all over it and it's easy for them to learn.
I appreciate how you incorporated the sports sense of your job into the ADDIE process. So much of what we are learning spans over so many careers, technical or not. Your analogy was perfect.
Until next time . . .
Great point on the copyright issues for photographs and/or other images students might use. The thought hadnt occured to me when I was writing my own response.
As a teacher, it would be important for the students to be taught the issues surrounding copyright issues. Just another teachable moment.
Matt
I completely agree with using a variety of mediums to teach to children. I teach science to middle school. For every lesson I need a hands-on activity to make the ideas concrete. Pictures are worth a 1,000 words. I know this from using Youtube to show science explosions I can’t do in class. Pictures are another medium I need to incorporate into lessons.
I agree with the copyright issues and adult websites. It is almost impossible to monitor the student’s accessibility to images on the internet. I also discussed this issue in my reflection. I took a step further with sexual predators viewing photos online. It’s a scary world we live in.
I agree with the issues that you and most everyone else has with the possibility of students accessng the wrong information or adding inappropriate pictures, but I think there must be a site that the students can get pictures from and not add to. This would help for you to get pictures to them, simply give them a site and the pictures pop up. I don't know, they will find a way around, I'm sure.
I too think your analogy to sports was very fitting, and I think that using the ADDIE approach can be used in almost any situation.
Matt - I think you made a good point to not only look at the aspects of students using this type of tool, and the pos/neg aspects there, but also pointing to the other side of the classroom (the teacher). This could be (if used properly) a great tool for a professor to use (especially like in your example, geography, etc.) I can remember back in High School where our teach had to use a million year-old slide projector to show samples of all the places that he had visited and to show how they were significant. This type of tool could not only help teachers to that, but also find other teachers samples, etc.
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