Essential Question: Week 7

Essential Question: How can technology enhance learning when students aren’t the ones accessing it?
Technology is a great thing that can be very useful to students and to teachers as well.  If students are not the ones with access the teacher is the one using the technology to enhance the students learning.  They can use it by finding resources on line, the way in which they use visual aids , the different methods of assessment and the variey ways in which they present the curriculum. 

I found an interesting statement on line which I find true-

Before you roll that TV into the classroom…remember that technology is just the delivery tool for a specific teaching method or strategy. In order to enhance learning, you need to make sure it is part of a larger design process. Here’s one approach to deciding what technology will reap the best benefits:

Ask yourself:

1. What are my goals and objectives for this lesson, unit, etc?
2. What teaching methods will best help me reach these goals and objectives? Typical methods are presentation, demonstration, discovery, and problem solving, but there are many more.
3. What activities or delivery tools will match this teaching method best? Typical activities are lecture, lab experiments and case studies. Typical delivery tools include all sorts of instructional media and technology from chalkboards to newer media like computers and the Internet.

Some teachers think that just because you use a powerpoint or a video learning is enhanced.  Not true.  They need to see the big picture.