Week 13

Teachers act as designers every day in the classroom. They are designing a learning format for their students and coming up with different ways and ideas to assist their students in learning. Teachers can use the technologies of the computer to come up with different idea to help their students to learn. Being creative and educational all at the same time can be a very affective way of having successful students.

Model car design is a way for teacher to incorporate science, math, and engineering concepts into a project for students to design. The teacher may give the students certain materials that can be used and then give the model car a destination requirement and the student will have to be a car out of the assigned materials and make that car go a certain distance or overcome a certain obstacle. This project is great for bringing out the students individuality and creativity while also requiring the student to think and test their problem solving skills.

Digital story telling can be a very fun way of creating a story to the student . This requires the student to prepare the story, use a camera to shoot a video that goes along with their story, and finally edit their video on a computer using software. This will allow the student to be creative and individual. This seems like a good way to get the students involved in a lesson and keep the student thinking about different ideas and ways to improve their story. I would like to use this technology in my classroom because it seems like a very fun and interesting way to learn about my students and keep their interest which to me is key in learing.

The textbook explains that mathematics is a very visual subject and that students need to be aided with visual examples to understand the concept of math. I feel that hands on learning espeacially with math is a definite key to success. Using the calculators with graphing may help students to visualize the way that a graph should be and not just the formula to get the graph. Showing a student the outcome and being able to show them how and why this is the outcome will assist you and the student with a better understanding of this sometimes so complicated subject.

I do not believe that simply watching a television program about a subjest can assure you to know that subject to it's fullest. I belive that you must have some hands on experience in dealing with the subject to truely  be tested on your knowlege of the subject. Showing students a math problem and not letting them try it for themselves does not seem like a ver effective way of making sure that a student will retain the information given to them.


References

Crismond, D., Howland, J., Jonassens, D., Marra, R. M.
learning with technology. Columbus: Pearson, Merrill Prentice Hall.