Week 10

From the videos I learned that technology has the power to arouse interest in the students. It automatically takes something that could potentially be boring and turns it into something fun, new, and interesting. Especially with young children. Their attention spans do not last very long and it is important to get the interested in the lesson so that they will learn. The teachers in the videos created learning environments with technology that got the students involved. The kids were actually the ones taking the pictures. They seemed to be enjoying it. It is nice that the teacher created a website so that the students and their parents can see the pictures that they took. It is so important to get the kids interested and it seems that technology can do the trick. I also feel that technology reiterates what the teacher has taught about. Young children need repetition in order to full understand and remember things that they are learning. Young children also need to be engaged in hands on learning so that they will learn for themselves the concept. Technology also allows for children to help each other. All students are on different levels when it comes to technology and learning to help each other is key for social interaction. I also liked how the second teacher talked about how it is interactive for the parents as well. The parents can see what their children are doing.