Learning Outcome #11: Demonstrates sufficient technology skills and the ability to integrate technology into classroom teaching/learning
Technology comes easy to the kids now a day because it is their way of life. Integrating technology into the classroom gets the students’ attention and helps them become engaged. It is what they know, so why not incorporate it? It is the best way to motivate students and essentially promotes them to understand what is being taught in a way that is best for them. Every student is different, so using multiple ways to teach the students’ benefits them, and technology is one of those ways.
In Tully High School I tried using different ways of learning all the time. While reading The Things They Carried, I incorporated powerpoints, and prezis to help show the visual of what was being learned that day. I used youtube clips of veterans of the Vietnam war to help show the students what really went on, and how they were truly affected; this connected to many of the characters in the novel, and nudged them to think about what affects them in their own lives. We analyzed three different songs that were written during the Vietnam era, and connected it to the novel. We watched clips of Forest Gump and Hamburger Hill so the students could see the picture of what was being read. These pieces of technology, although small, helped the students understand the novel in so many more ways than if we were to just read it with no supplementary ways of learning.
In Tully High School I tried using different ways of learning all the time. While reading The Things They Carried, I incorporated powerpoints, and prezis to help show the visual of what was being learned that day. I used youtube clips of veterans of the Vietnam war to help show the students what really went on, and how they were truly affected; this connected to many of the characters in the novel, and nudged them to think about what affects them in their own lives. We analyzed three different songs that were written during the Vietnam era, and connected it to the novel. We watched clips of Forest Gump and Hamburger Hill so the students could see the picture of what was being read. These pieces of technology, although small, helped the students understand the novel in so many more ways than if we were to just read it with no supplementary ways of learning.
"Truth"
In Homer Junior High I have used powerpoints to guide the students and myself throughout the lesson. I have also incorporated pictures, and maps from online to help show the students what is being read about. These visuals help dramatically in the success of their learning. This school also has IPADS that are held in our classroom. We use these IPADS for pretty much everything and anything; they are available to us and the students know how to use them. In my lesson the other day the students were working with an informational text to connect with the novel we are reading. They were to read the sections and answer questions in their groups. There was an IPAD at each group so the students could use them to look up words if they for some reason couldn’t use context clues to figure out the word first. If one group finished before all the others, I had each person from that group find something in the section read that interested them influencing them to want to know more about and then research it on the IPAD and share with the class. Technology opens up a plethora of educational tools if used appropriately.
Forest Gump Clip Lesson
Lyrics Lesson
Hamburger Hill Clip Lesson
Vietnam Veterans Clip Lesson
Tet Offensive Clip Lesson
Forest Gump Clip Lesson
Lyrics Lesson
Hamburger Hill Clip Lesson
Vietnam Veterans Clip Lesson
Tet Offensive Clip Lesson