Lesson Plans & Articles: Technology can help a simple lesson plan and enhance it to help keep kids interested. Children love to use computers and smart boards or anything that doesn't involve writing with a pencil. My daughter Jessica's fourth grade teacher used PowerPoint's on a weekly basis. He made sure all his students knew how to create one and had them do a few reports using a PowerPoint. Every time my daughter would learn something new she would come home so excited about the new things she learned how to do on a computer and drag me to a computer and ATTEMPT to teach me and amazingly not losing patience when it would take 5 time for me to learn it..
Having technology helps students in their learning, but some of the old ways of teaching need to be keep ed around. Too much technology makes students a zombie of the outside world. When visiting with a friend, how many times do they actually hear their voice.
I defiantly don't have a problem with multitasking, but have become more aware of how many times I am doing homework for two different classes at the same time.
Great presentation Gina! I know you weren’t talking about us with the playing games in class comment! Ha Ha
ReplyDeleteGina, I really like your post! I agree, I think everyone likes to learn new ways to do anything. I think it is great teachers are creative and make learning fun. Technology is so handy! During my practicum I was amazed how easy technology made the lessons. I'm excited to learn more about how I can make learning more fun in my future classroom.
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