Which strategies are most effective for teaching and learning with technology?

We have learned a lot of different strategies to integrate technology into the classroom. Mainly we have learned the many different ways in which we can use technology to help students learn. We have learned how to use podcasts, movies and many other technologies to help us. One concern that I have is that I will not be able to use an array of different strategies because I do not really understand how some of them work. I do want to be able to many different strategies, so that is one thing that I need to learn more about.

How can you effectively integrate technology into your teaching and learning?

The main way to effectively integrate technology into teaching is to integrate it into the lesson plans. Sometimes technology can take the same fate as doing worksheets or any other in class activity, that is that it becomes busy work. The main goal is to use technology in the lesson in such a way so that it connects to the lesson and helps the student learn about the material.
Mainly I need to learn how to use technology better. If I am going to use technology when I am a teacher, I need to know how to use it and one of my concerns is that I will not have adequate knowledge on how to correctly and effectively use technology.

Why might it be important for students to learn with technology?

Mainly what i have learned in class and from being in the field is that it is very important for students to learn with technology because technology is becoming more and more important in general. Technology has developed substantially in recent years and shows no sign of letting up. In the coming years technology will become more prevelant amongst the high school age group. We need to utilize technology to our benefit. Technology is something that students will understand and we an use that to help them learn. This also goes back to our discussion on digital natives. Students now are digital natives, and they will become even more savvy with technology in the coming years. My main question on this essential question is how to keep up with new technology. In the coming years technology will advance at a rapid pace and it will be very hard to keep up with it.

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This chapter focused on education outside the actual classroom and how useful going outside the classroom can be to students. Field trips and other work outside the classroom can help students to be less bored and much more interested in material because they are able to see things demonstrated in the world outside of school. This is a very good way to help students understand why they are learning the material and to help them apply their knowledge. Education is about learning material, but it is also about appyling that material in life outside the classroom. Education means nothing without application, and it's main purpose is to help students prepare for the world after school. Doing things outside of the classroom can help students apply themselves.

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Chapter 9 was very good because it deals with how to teach the students that many teachers don't even want to deal with, and subsequently give up on. Many discouraged students are hard to deal with, and they get to the point where they do not want to even try anymore and feel that school doesn't matter for them. It is a teachers job to show them that they can succeed and encourage them not to give up. This chapter also discusses what the teacher should do if a classroom gets out of control, which is very helpful knowledge as sometimes students act out. This chapter also stresses the importance of not giving up on students when they are not doing well, but rather to try to help them succeed.

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This chapter gave good insight into how to teach students that are still learning English. This can be a very tough thing for teachers if they don't know how to accommodate these students. The part of the chapter that I found particularly good is the part about incorporating different cultures into the curriculum. It is important, especially in my field of history, to not only study one culture. It is very important to understand what is going on all over the world and to understand the different viewpoints that different cultures have on past events. Students from different cultures, if taught correctly, can add a lot to the class in terms of differing viewpoints.

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I thought that chapter 7 was very good. It really addressed a lot of questions that i had about teaching, more so even then the rest of the book has. As a person who has a real passion for the subject which I will be teaching, I will want to challenge my students and present difficult material to them. This chapter gave me many, many answers about how to present this material effectively so that the students can learn it. I also really liked how the chapter presented information about presenting difficult material with regards to all of the different subjects.