Education and Technology. Why Should Computer Be Used in the Classroom? Benefits & Advantages of Computers in the Classroom. So, How Do I Do It Right? In order for computer time to work for you, decide what your approach for each computer session will be. Will you facilitate, guide or instruct? This may vary by computer activity. For example, you may want to have an instructional session where you are showing them some websites or new software.
Know the program or website that the students will be using well before letting them use it. Planning is important. Briefly instruct students on the program or website at their desks before they are sitting in front of the computer and then let them go to the computer immediately after your instruction. When applicable (depending on the purpose), confer with students while they are on the computer. Provide consistent feedback, which may be praise or correction. Computers as a Classroom Tool. By Judi Heitz Introduction How can you use a computer in class work that expands the function from the computer from a tool for word processing to a resource, a communication tool, and a notetaker as well? First, I have to say, I LOVE my computer. I use it as a word processor, to keep financial records, to keep in touch with friends and family, and as a research tool (Where do I apply for a passport?
What does apochromatic mean? I need a picture of meiosis for class today - I can download one!). My students, however, basically see a computer as a typewriter. How does the project work in the classroom? The project requires the students to apply their academic knowledge and work both cooperatively and collaboratively in designing a genetically engineered product and presenting it in a classroom seminar. By placing the requirements, grading rubrics, and job descriptions on the Internet, the students were given a definite reason to use computers for a reason other than word processing. Computers. Strategies for teachers - One Computer Classroom. 1. Use the Computer as Teacher Tool: Keep records, manipulate information, produce individual letters to parents. Produce a class newsletter. Create customized follow-up work for lessons. Make personalized certificates of achievement.
Create customized graphic organizers and direction sheets. Tips: Use Stationery and Template files in the Global Shared File Use spreadsheets for class lists and charts Use database for student information 2. (whole class on TV monitor or overhead or small group on the computer monitor) Reading groups: draw story webs, have the computer read vocabulary words Demonstrate concepts: for example, add descriptive words to a sentence or rearrange the sequence of words in a sentence to change the meaning. 3. Lists: each student adds one item related to a topic that will be used for discussion Science topic: students type questions of things they want to know about a new subject. 4. 5. 6. For Educational Use Only All Rights Reserved, Linda J. Why Use Technology in the Classroom. Teaching Strategies: Technology in the Classroom. Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom.
By Kimberly Moore Kneas, Ph.D. and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. Early Childhood Today: Are young children's brains (ages three through six) well suited to the use of technology? (We define technology as children using cameras, computers, tape recorders and video cameras in classroom projects.) If so, how? Dr. I see technology doing the same things today. Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information. The problem with this is that many of the modern technologies are very passive. Sitting young children in front of a television for hours also prevents that child from having hours of other developmental experiences. On the other hand there are many positive qualities to modern technologies. Dr. Back to top Dr. Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
I think that balance and timing are the keys to healthy development. Using the Technology of Today, in the Classroom Today - Powered by Google Docs. Office of Educational Technology (OET) Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students. A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n Change inStudent andTeacherRoles When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.
Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress. The teacher's role changes as well. Project-based work (such as the City Building Project and the Student-Run Manufacturing Company) and cooperative learning approaches prompt this change in roles, whether technology is used or not.
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