Overview: The image above was created by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who pictured fantastical and overly complicated contraptions for comedic purposes in the 1930's. The concept of a "Goldberg Machine" quickly caught on in both language (taken to mean something needlessly complicated or indirect for performing a simple task) and practice (contests to build the most convoluted machines in the spirit of Goldberg's drawings exist today). As educators, we must take great pains to ensure that the technology we are introducing in the classroom is not acting as a Goldberg machine. In other words, classroom technologies should be unobtrusive, well implemented, and help improve overall learning outcomes. They should not make simple educational tasks unnecessarily complicated.
Screencast: Screencast 11
Big Question: How can teachers ensure that the technologies they are adopting are beneficial?
Interactive Site: This interactive site is a shameless self-plug to a Weebly I created for another class here at Bradley. Since the spirit of this chapter is top instructional tools for teachers, I thought it would be helpful to share some of my own. The page I linked is dedicated to tools in History/Social studies that I thought might be useful for the future. Many of the tools/sites on this page are interactive and deal with many types of media, including music.
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