Final Reflection

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Digital Blog Post L: Chapter 12

Digital Blog Post K- Chapter 6

Digital Blog Post J- Chapter 11

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Digital Blog Post I- Chapter 4

Zoom into at least 150% on the Bubblus for easiest reading and navigation! Resources 1. Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. 2. Burke, M (November, 1, 2015) Digital Blog Post I. Bubbles created with bubble.us

Digital Blog Post H- Chapter 9

Chapter 9 talks about specific ways to use technology and multimedia to teach students and share information with them. Multimodal learning is particularly important when trying to do this. Multimodal learning is when a teachers use a couple different forms of presenting information at once. For example, they could teach a lesson with their spoken words and also provide a visual with it. (Maloy, et al, 2013, p.217) I think this is so crucial because all kids learn in different ways, regarding Howard Gardner's 8 learning styles. Multimodal learning appeals to a couple different learning styles at a time to accommodate more students.

There are several tools that teachers now have to present information. Two tools that seems particularly helpful is digital projectors (projects an image from a computer onto a big screen) and document cameras (project whatever is under the lens onto a big screen) to allow the whole class to look at something at one time. (Maloy, et al, 2013, p.220) These were found in almost any classroom I've been in and its hard to imagine not having them. They can make certain things much more efficient because teachers don't have to just write every single thing up on the board, they can just project it. However, it is important that all teachers know exactly how to use tools like this. I have been in a couple classrooms where the teachers had trouble using this kind of equipment which was a time consumer. I think this will be almost eliminated with the newer generation of teachers coming in though.

YouTube has also become a useful tool for teachers. There are so many great videos out there and you can even filter your search to specific education channels. (Maloy, et al, 2013, p.225) Teachers still have to be careful though and make sure they carefully watch all of the videos they use before showing them to the class. When I am a teacher, I will try to keep the longer videos to a limit and try to use shorter clips as more of an effective tool or break the longer videos into segments. Students usually find it difficult to focus on an educational video for too long and often zone out after a while so I will try to avoid this, because besides that they can be very beneficial, especially to visual learners.

All in all, technology has now become a crucial aspect in classrooms when giving new information to students.

Resources

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Burke, M (October, 19, 2015) Digital Blog Post H. Word Cloud created with ABCya: www.abcya.com

Digital Blog Post G- Chapter 10