level of technology
After reading Chapter 5 of our text and reviewing the Edutopia article, “From Curriculum to Communication: A School Immerses Itself in Tech” and video, Elementary Students Get a Wired Education, required this week, reflect on the level of technology used in the school. In at least 300 words, Address the following:
What level of planning do you believe facilitated integrating the technology into the classrooms?
How does the use of technology address the five instructional activities (Motivation, Orientation, Information, Application, Evaluation) listed in our text.
Describe your reaction to the use of the technology.
Which of the tools would you feel comfortable using?
Which would you like to know more about?
Describe a plan for becoming more comfortable with new technology tools and their implementation in the classroom.
Our text states, “Combining computers with cooperative learning strategies promotes greater quantity and quality of daily achievement, more successful problem solving, and higher performance on factual recognition, application, and problem-solving text items than do computers and competition or computers and individualized learning.”
With that in mind, explore the Microsoft Lesson Plans website (or another website that offers lesson plans utilizing technology) and address the following:
Find and adapt a lesson plan utilizing technology that was originally designed for individual student work to a cooperative format.
Explain how you would build an atmosphere that encourages participation and cooperation.
How will you teach group processes to the students?
How will you facilitate their learning?
How difficult was it to adapt the lesson?
Do you agree with the statement from our text?
Do you believe the changes to the lesson will increase overall achievement?
What are the advantages and limitations inherent in each approach?
Post the link for the original lesson plan in the discussion forum.
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The level of planning that I believe facilitated the level of technology into the classroom is effective learning objectives of internet. Technology has a number of advantages that effectively enable teachers or instructors to guide students on appropriate use of internet. Through the use of internet, it is evident that students can significantly understand the concepts of using a computer……………………
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