Blog Post H. Chapter 9.

After reading chapter nine, I feel that my knowledge has been expanded, on what types of technologies can be used to help students in a classroom. Whether its ways for teaching them or helping them learn with the technology.

One of my all time favorite tools is the Power Point; with this tool a teacher is able to display questions or comments for short writing assignments. For elementary students this tool could be used as a way to give direction to the students on what the assignment may be. Or could even be used as a way to help a child learn a subject, with pictures and videos this could be a fun way to get their attention and learn in the process. Another great way to incorporate power points in a classroom is make them into games for the kids to enjoy and learn.

YouTube is also on of my favorites; I don’t think I would be comfortable letting my elementary students use this without supervision, so I found this site to be more so directed as a teacher tool. There are educational channels that teacher can connect through and get ideas from, for their classroom.

It’s a great site to share different videos of what the class might be learning that week. For older students, it’s a great site to go and find information and insight on subjects.

         I often look back and remember a middle school teacher I had, who shared videos with us weekly sometimes daily. Her strategy was something like what I read from the book this week. The book gives great examples on how to teach and help the students retain the information viewed from the videos. The first step is to rewind when there’s something important the students need to know, or pause often when you have extra information you want to share with the students. Pausing the video will also give them time to take the notes they need. Second step is to ask the students to write the responses, if the video is asking questions. Pausing then again will come in handy so they have time to think about the question being asked and can come up with a intelligent response. The last thing I found to be very interesting is; turning off the volume or the picture, this allows the student to think critically either way. If the picture is gone the student can then imagine what the visual is that is not being shown, or vice versa, the student can then use their imagination as to what the visuals is portraying.

Resources:

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.