Effects of Technology in the Classroom

Effects of Technology in the Classroom

     This is a great article about the different effects technology has in the classroom. I really 
 like the main points the article hits about increased motivation and having students working collaboratively in the classroom. It shows how you can easily do some of these things with little or no work to yourself as a teacher. I also like the areas where they talk about the increased self esteem, I can see how teaching students these skills and helping them to feel confident and independent can help with their self esteem in and out of the classroom.  Also depended on your population and students access to computers you could have students doing assignments at home and still working together in groups. I once had a cooperating teacher who used to make a powerpoint with himself recorded and pre-teach the math lesson they were going to learn the next day. So the students assignment was to listen to the lesson so that they were prepared the next day, if they did not have a computer at home they came into the room early (right after breakfast) and previewed it. This concept worked very well and could not have been used without technology!