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Critical Thinking
Intergrating Technology IN the Classroom
Intergrating Technology into the classroom is a great idea and a lot of school has already started doing this. When teachers intergrate techology into the classroom teachers are helping their students in many way. In the article "Teachers and Technology:English with an Edge" by Neal Starkman, he talked about a teacher, Angie Brown, who had her students do a satire project, said that "the students, instead of limping their way to graduation with acute cases of senioritis, really get into the project.
With Angie saying that, I understand how the technology she used made her students that were graduating still care about school. At my school all the seniors were bored the last semester because gradution because no teachers did anything like what Angie did that would interest us.
When reading both articles "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge" by Neal Starkman and "TECHNOLOGY: Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms" by Royal Van Horn, I did have a few questions. In the "Technology: Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms" I think my high school, for the most part, was high-tech. We did have 5 computers in every classroom and we had computer labs, and my question is what else made the high-tech schools, high-tech, because everything he examined my high school did. My school was like in the 3rd model with the 1st and 2nd model combined. I think that my high school was some what high tech, but I think there was more that the author did to the schools that he did not explain.
When reading the "Technology: Towar a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms", it made sense to me that the High-Tech Schools would not work as well as the High-Tech Schoolrooms. It cost a lot like of money for all the computers and in a lot of classrooms you do not use them everyday and the get old and dusty. When it is time to get new computers MOST school do not get them and they keep their old ones. In some classrooms I have seen there were ancient computers that the students used, and they went like 10mph, they were very slow.
In writing this paper I has noticed that I have had many connections with the intergrating technonlogy stories and my own life experiences with technology. I think that everyone can relate to a lot of this articles with their own lives. In "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge", Neal Starkman talks about a young man that was average and when the teacher had him do the satire project with technology he really excelled.
When I read that story I thought of how a lot of times there are those teachers that still believe in the kids that don't get all A's, but they are still talented. This teacher showed that this student was talented in technology and the teacher could intergrate technology, a thing that most students like, and get the students to excel in english with using something they are interested in.
This is my first year of IUPUI out of high school so I do not how a lot that I can connect this reading with things that I have read before about technology in the classroom. I can say though that I would like to read more things with technology in the classroom and intergrating it with learning.
Starkman, Neal. "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge", T.H.E. Journal, 5/15/2008, http://www.thejornal.com/articles/22614
Van Horn, Royal. "Technology:Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms. Phi Delta Kappan International. 3/2006. http:www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v87/k0603van.htm
Critical Thinking
Intergrating Technology IN the Classroom
Intergrating Technology into the classroom is a great idea and a lot of school has already started doing this. When teachers intergrate techology into the classroom teachers are helping their students in many way. In the article "Teachers and Technology:English with an Edge" by Neal Starkman, he talked about a teacher, Angie Brown, who had her students do a satire project, said that "the students, instead of limping their way to graduation with acute cases of senioritis, really get into the project.
With Angie saying that, I understand how the technology she used made her students that were graduating still care about school. At my school all the seniors were bored the last semester because gradution because no teachers did anything like what Angie did that would interest us.
When reading both articles "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge" by Neal Starkman and "TECHNOLOGY: Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms" by Royal Van Horn, I did have a few questions. In the "Technology: Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms" I think my high school, for the most part, was high-tech. We did have 5 computers in every classroom and we had computer labs, and my question is what else made the high-tech schools, high-tech, because everything he examined my high school did. My school was like in the 3rd model with the 1st and 2nd model combined. I think that my high school was some what high tech, but I think there was more that the author did to the schools that he did not explain.
When reading the "Technology: Towar a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms", it made sense to me that the High-Tech Schools would not work as well as the High-Tech Schoolrooms. It cost a lot like of money for all the computers and in a lot of classrooms you do not use them everyday and the get old and dusty. When it is time to get new computers MOST school do not get them and they keep their old ones. In some classrooms I have seen there were ancient computers that the students used, and they went like 10mph, they were very slow.
In writing this paper I has noticed that I have had many connections with the intergrating technonlogy stories and my own life experiences with technology. I think that everyone can relate to a lot of this articles with their own lives. In "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge", Neal Starkman talks about a young man that was average and when the teacher had him do the satire project with technology he really excelled.
When I read that story I thought of how a lot of times there are those teachers that still believe in the kids that don't get all A's, but they are still talented. This teacher showed that this student was talented in technology and the teacher could intergrate technology, a thing that most students like, and get the students to excel in english with using something they are interested in.
This is my first year of IUPUI out of high school so I do not how a lot that I can connect this reading with things that I have read before about technology in the classroom. I can say though that I would like to read more things with technology in the classroom and intergrating it with learning.
Starkman, Neal. "Teachers and Technology: English with an Edge", T.H.E. Journal, 5/15/2008, http://www.thejornal.com/articles/22614
Van Horn, Royal. "Technology:Toward a New Model of High-Tech Schoolrooms. Phi Delta Kappan International. 3/2006. http:www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v87/k0603van.htm
Introducing myself (again)
I am 19 years old. I go to IUPUI. I like to run, wonder, explore, and talk to anyone. I plan on graduated from IUPUI in 2012 which a degree in elem education. I like teaching little kids. I worked at a nursing home for 2 years so working with kids is a good change, eventhough most of the time the old people acted like kids.
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