Teachers Use Technology in Classroom Control -- Sara Heine

http://suite101.com/article/teachers-use-technology-in-classroom-control-a157739

I chose this article because with the little time I’ve given students to use technology independently when I was teaching 7^th grade math I always noticed the enjoyment that students had along side with the minimal problems I faced with behavior. The problem that I always dealt with was the multitude of questions students had because they had very little exposure to technology.

            One thing that has continually been popping into my head as I go through the projects for this class is how could my 6^th grade students use this tool? One of the best ways I can see my students use a lot of the websites I’ve been introduced to, Photo Stories, and Blogs, is through the writing curriculum that I will be attempting to tackle. This article mentions how many students don’t like to write, but opening thing up to a form of writing that uses technology many times doesn’t seem like writing at all! VoiceThreads, Bookemon, and Classtools, Prezi are all great websites I could use to help kids with their writing and forms of presentation. Blogs would be a great way to just get kids to write and well as a good way of editing other student’s blogs. This article makes you realize the huge impact technology can have on students behavior and excitements about learning.

            The author of this article brings up the point that when students are able to create and publish they work that much harder on their project because they know that others will be looking at it. I know this to be true because when I was student teaching, friends and family came in for a readers theatre and all the kids works so hard because they knew someone, other than the teaching, would be critiquing their work.