Chapter 2
There was a lot of information in chapter 2. One thing that
caught my eye was the tech tool 2.1 section about applications (apps) for
teaching and learning. I would have never thought that schools would use apps
for students to learn, and it’s not only the students learning, the teacher is
learning as well because all of it is a new experience. In this section of tech
tool 2.1 there were ideas of different tools to use in a classroom such as a
mathboard. The mathboard app helps problem solving, mathematical puzzles and
visual aid graphs. There seemed to be an app for about every subject!
Another interesting way technology is integrated into
schools is when teachers have their own website through the school, that has
the student’s classroom notes, educational videos, and what the students went
over in class that day. I read that this also helped parents stay in touch with
the teacher and their student’s grades throughout the school year. This to me
seems very convenient because when I was in school I would bring home a report
card and there would the choice of showing your parents your grades or not
showing the grades. But it is important the parent is involved.
In the book it says that technology has helped students learn
quicker and that it has a positive effect in schools which I agree with.
Technology teaching practices are student centered and focus on the students
ability to grow and learn. Student centered teaching is pretty much problem
base teaching where the students figure out a problem with other classmates or
by themselves. I thought this was odd because the teacher usually guides the
students into what they need to learn but student centered teaching is revolved
around technology and is constructive, which is also good.
Citations:
- Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.
- Marceau B. (2015 January 22). There's an app for that. Created with Bitstrips. http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/comics/QL7P91/#
This is another post that you apparently didn't submit, but I'm grading it through the gradebook. Great comic strip and word cloud (which program did you use for the word cloud creation?) - be sure to include all web 2.0 digital creations in your list of resources, too.
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