State officials and school administrators are constantly evaluating the progress of students. Has the use of technology shown a concrete improvement in student learning? Or is technology distracting the students from learning? Below is an article from Allison Bailey and J. Puckett from JournalStar.com who attempt to shed light on the question, “Can technology fix education?”
“Secrets” of High-Quality Interactive Lesson Content
Interactive lesson planning is much like what we were taught when we first learned how to write lesson plans. The only difference is that now we have the power of interactivity to incorporate into our lesson design. It opens the realm of possibilities to tap into every student’s unique learning style, otherwise known as differentiation. Planning is not arbitrary but skillful, with deliberate decisions being made every step of the way.
The following list includes popular educational technologies currently in today’s classrooms: Document Cameras Projectors Interactive Whiteboards Mobile Laptop Carts Student Response Systems or Voting Devices (clickers) In addition to the technology that fills our classrooms, the software allows students and teachers to take advantage of these new devices. The interactive learning objects and lesson plans [...]
Boosting student achievement means identifying those students at risk for learning difficulties in reading and math, behavioral issues or on the brink of dropping out. THE Journal WEBINAR Series PRESENTS: Universal Screening Webinar: Register for the Universal Screening Webinar and LEARN HOW TO: Place students in the right reading and math level across grades Accurately [...]
Reading Intervention and Math Intervention typically go hand in hand. Let’s start with the facts: Nationally, 44% of 4th Graders are not fluent readers 8 million students read below grade level 1.3 million students fail to graduate from high school 55% or less Hispanic and African-American students graduate from high school 72% of 8th grade [...]
Educational Software is broad and covers many things. Computer games children play at home and core curriculum lessons aligned to state’s standards to supplement students’ learning…and then everything in between! Most of you would agree that “playing on the Internet” is not the best way students should spend their time in the computer lab at [...]
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Reading Horizons Intervention Software Program Literacy is usually the first to be discussed when addressing both Reading Intervention and Math Intervention solutions. So what is literacy? The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: “‘Literacy’ is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and [...]
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