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 [...]
Comment on the 2008 revision of the Arizona Long-range Strategic Educational Technology Plan Over 30 individuals conducted initial work on the plan Transforming Education: Enabling Learning for all Arizona Students and established a set of Guiding Principles to provide a framework for the revision process. The current draft is now ready for your comments (The [...]
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 [...]