Fairness

Not really sure this has to do with technology, but I felt it to be important to share with everyone.

Pay Attention

This is a video I found my senior year of high school and, even then, the knowledge I gained by watching this video has stayed with me to this day. I remembered that it had a lot to do with digital technology being integrated into education and what they say really made a lot of sense to me. What do you think?

Interactivity #4

                For this interactivity I chose a lesson plan based on students ability to use order of operations and their ability to create and solve real world problems. I chose this lesson plan because I feel it is important that students have the skills to take what they learn in the classroom and not only solve them based on theory but be able to relate these skills to real life situations. Having this relationship gives the lesson meaning to the students so they will not believe that they are learning this sort of material for no practical reason. It is also important that students know how technology can be related to anything they learn.

                Between the learning strategies, the standards, and the technologies being used, I think that they are all well aligned towards the leaning goals. The standards being fulfilled are student’s ability to use order of operations as well as relate problems to the real world. To do this, student are asked to create problems in which order of operations would be used and then use computers  or digital cameras to find/take pictures based on said problems in order to bring the problems to life. It is clear that the learning strategies, the standards, and the technologies align together well.

                The technologies used for this lesson are critical to the success of the lesson because they give the lesson more meaning. If students can use pictures from the internet or take them in real life, then it is clear that the problems they are solving must somehow relate to the real world. Also, using these technologies will make the lesson more enjoyable to the students, thus keeping them more interested and engaged.

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