Thursday, June 14, 2012
Design Project: Relation to Project Tomorrow
Modern students are very interested in using their own technology in class. Through my research with Project Tomorrow about cell phones I found there are many applications for cell phone use in a school environment. Many teenagers today have their own cell phones, and most of those even have internet access which they use all the time outside of school. If the students did have an I-Phone or an I-Pad they would be able to go to the interactive websites or videos at their own desk so depending on the number of students with this type of phone we would be able to potentially break into small groups and work on different but related concepts. This increase in cell phone use can boost communication since it gives me, their teacher, another way of contacting them. I can text them links to videos that they need to watch as their homework. This use of new technologies helps with teaching because if the students aren’t able to understand a certain concept after I’ve explained it then by either visually seeing it played out in a video or working hands on in a simulation/interactive website the student are now given two new ways to potentially understand the information. As we all know not everyone learns the same way so being able to incorporate new ways of presenting information is always helpful for the students.
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