Chapter 10&11

Chapter 10 discusses on extra forms of technologies that can help teachers come up with alternative ways of teaching for students who need or who are familiar to a different way of learning. Since there are so many different learners in the classroom the accommodations have to be made in order to success for all students and to have new effective learning. These accommodations have to be design because no teacher has the time to design individual material for every student every day. According to chapter 10 teachers can adjust their curriculum and instruction to find every student benefits. Not all students learn the same of course. so teacher to use different instructional(DI) and universal design for learning (UDL). Using DI and UDL with students to achieve each student interest in ways that will engage the multiple learning style, to give the students many ways to understand the information and to offer appropriate challenge. Redesign and design classroom environment and change the ways curriculum delivered are important to improve the student learning.

Technology is the greatest assistive tool available to teachers to support all learners. some students struggle in school to find connections between academic content and their experiences. the teachers can use technology to make material become more accessible. However, Technology assistive comes in many forms to promote learning success for many different students. especially, assisting students with disabilities. One point in the chapter I found it interesting that technology help student to write confidently by allowing students to revise, edit, draft, and publish all in one document. Furthermore, technology provide for students to check their spelling and grammar.

Chapter 11 emphasize about the assessment in teaching and learning.in addition, the chapter 11 shows Three interrelated elements of assessment are: new teacher assessment, student assessment, and student self-assessment. SO, the technology plays important role to assess student and teacher’s performance since it displays in the actual real-word learning they have experience in school. Table 11.1 shows a comparison chart of types of performance evaluation of students and teachers.

The chapter illustrate the digital portfolio that is “a collection of educational materials stored in an electronic format such as a CD-ROM, website, or computer file” – which means that students can save their work to a disk, a CD, or a web page.

 A digital portfolio has some advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of digital portfolios are that they are accessible, portable, creative, show technological self-confidence, and community. Some disadvantages of digital portfolios are that they require knowledge and skill, can sometimes need professional support, can sometimes use expensive equipment, takes more time and energy to create, need for increased viewer skills and equipment, and the presentation distracts away from the content. I think a digital portfolios require a large time and effort from me as teacher, but it has meaningful effective to growth and development me as teachers and student learning over time. I believe allowing students to creating portfolios can give students the voice in education make-decision.

I liked how online survey involve students to become in the assessment process because without student involvement, the student will just receivers, which effect student’s learning efficiency. Using participate system is a good way to encourages actively all students to participate that can lead student to understand more the academic materials and stored in the long-term memory. Also, it helps student to assessment them self to know their mistakes and learn from these mistakes.

Chapter 7&8 reflection

Technology offers powerful support for promote inquiries learning, problem solving skills, and sharing ideas especially when teachers practice website education in classroom. I think teachers are responsible for integrating technology into curriculum in order to promote student’s achievements. In chapter 7 shows the teachers what types of software, the standard of software application, and what a good software that teachers can use in education. Furthermore, open source software is allowing students to read what others have written and they can share their writing.

I believe chapter 7 helped the teachers to identify many ways to evaluate the soundness of the software. In addition, I agree that using video games in learning will increase student’s motivation and capture student’s attention. Conversely, I disagree with chapter 7 when is mention the negative impact of video games on student behaviors. From my experience as a video games player: 1) video games improved my English language skills. 2) helped me to escape from the pressure of life. For example, one time I had bad day at school instead of crying or being depressed I played  Ps2 to forget what happened that day .3) Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills. I think if the parents of the child teach them child these things in the video games are not real, the child won’t be affected by violent video games.

However, there is a big different between a games for education and games for entertainment. The games for education allow students to go through process that requires the students to make decision. After that the games give them feedback and reflect on their decision. Chapter 7 demonstrate strategies for teachers to use these games with students. I think it is beneficial to give the teachers better view of how to use these games. Tutorials systems displayed pictures and videos to teach students basic skills and new information. I feel tutorial is a good way to improve students learning individuals because it gives instruction and feedback.

Today education encourage students to communicate with peers and with teachers by using technology communication tools. Chapter 8 illustrate for teacher multiple technology communication tools to have the appropriate tools to support teachers teaching.  I believe when teachers involve social network in classroom they send a message for student how to interact with people around them and how to see the world from different views.

Chapter 8 shows why teacher should use electronic communications to have better learning. use electronic communications is “communication allows transmission of message or information using computer systems, fax machine, e-mail, tele or video conferencing and sate lite network “by MEAM Editorial Team.

Email and instant message give the teachers the opportunity to contact with students outside the school, with families, professional, and colleagues. I think email is the perfect tool for communication because it has many advantage for teacher and student rather than other tools. On other hand, creating blogs and website for learning can have positive outcomes: 1) help students to improve their writing skills. 2) give the students the freedom to publish their writing for everybody can see and share their experience.

Wiki is powerful tool for group to collaborate. I think I will apply it with my students because we can work together to create wikitext depend on the curriculum content. So, my students will have better understanding of curriculum content.