Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Technology in the Classroom
According to the article “Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners” Technology can be used as an excellent tool to support students’ diverse learning. However, they state that “potential of both existing and new technologies in supporting student learning isn’t in the technologies themselves but the ways they are used as tools for learning” (n.d. P 1). The use of technology it is been incrementing in schools since the last decade. It is true that almost every school has several types of technology. Yet, is it been used the way it supposed to be used? According to the article “Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction” even thought that there are many different points of view among educators on how technology it is been used in the classrooms, they agree that they can take advantage of the several uses of technology to support students’ learning.
From computers to interactive boards, there is always something to address everybody’s needs. Today teachers use a lot of more technology than in the past. The primary objective is to facilitate instruction in the classrooms and address diverse learning styles. In the article “WHY KIDS LOVE COMPUTER NETS" Using technology to escape the bounds of the classroom, children are learning to work in ways you never dreamed of when you were their age”. Talks about how the students love computers and how they are learning and they think they are playing, for instance. Today the use of computer is almost indispensable in a normal day classroom routine. Teachers take advantage of computers to drill and practice objectives covered in class. There are several excellent programs that are exclusively designed for students to cover a specific topic. While the use of computers is becoming an everyday basic need, more complex technology is coming to the public.
Internet search engine, Web-based information, and Websites are sites that offer collaborative activities supports student’s research and collaborative skills. Students actually have fun searching on the Web. They love to be in places without boundaries. Technology can also be used to analyze and interpret data. There are tons of Websites and other electronic formats from where they choose from. Additionally, students can enhance their learning by visiting many places over the internet. By allowing the students make a research in geography, for instance, will allow them to know more about other places that they might never be able to visit.
In conclusion, technology or technology uses is by far a motivational tool to enhance students’ learning and to address different learning styles.
Corcoran, E. (1993). WHY KIDS LOVE COMPUTER NETS using technology to escape the bounds of the classroom, children are learning to work in ways you never dreamed of when you were their age Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/20/78335/index.htm
Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction. (2000). Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm
Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners. Research Base Using Technology to Support Diverse. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://www.wested.org/pub/docs/tdl/research.htm