How does technology improve teaching and learning in your school? Technology allows for more student-centered instruction. The ease of collecting data with technology helps teachers and students to know exactly where students are at with learning different materials. In the classroom I am in right now we use Moby Max to track where students are grade-level wise and to help fill the gaps in learning that they have. We also have a couple of interactive whiteboards that we can use to project our materials and communicate information to our students. Each student has a computer that they can use during the day, this is a great resource for students as it allows them access to information. Technology allows us to show our students tutorials and show them where to access information if they are not understanding. We can use videos and other materials to enhance our lessons and provide students more real-world applications to what they are learning. What are some areas in which this could be improved? I think that often our interactive whiteboard is used as nothing more than that, a whiteboard. I would also like to find different activities for the students to use their laptops more not just for the sake of using their laptops but I think there are some great activities out there like Desmos and PearDeck that would help us get some more immediate feedback from our individual students. How do you go about making decisions about what technology to use in your classroom or school? I try to outline the goals of my lesson and then see if a specific tool would fit well to enhance the lesson. If the technology does not enhance the lesson I do not use it. I like to learn about a variety of different tech tools and what their pros and cons are so that I can make those decisions a little bit easier. My goal is to fit the tech tool to the lesson not the lesson to the tech tool.
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