Chp 8 & 9

To my understanding and my years of going to grade school and now collegeI beleive that teachers are disigner's most of the time while they are teaching. The teachers have to do alot of designing throughout the years and semesters they teach. Teachers must design lesson plans and other sorts of teaching methods to fit each student because each student learn in many different ways.

The trebuchet simulator is one of the devices that i would use inside a classroom. This teaching method is mostly used to teach lesson about the physics and force it simulates a throwing device and can be used in a competitive setting because they have to manipulate movement of things.

Digital Storytelling is a program that puts primary focus on integrating technology in activities with more infuses on the activity. It is used for majority of group work and working with others. It use for  telling stories between each other using first person narrative using your own voice andis illistrated mostley with still images.

I think that using graphic calculators is very important to use in a mathematical setting. It is used to make math more real because of its ability to graph and plot things on the grapgh. Its also able to do alot more other methods by using variables.

I do think that children could learn from television alone. There are many shows that are out these days that have some type of educational message to send to students, and not only educational but other ways also. I take the cooking channel for instance, even tho the instructions are not written down on paper you can still watch it visually and listen to the instruction and learn how to cook a meal just from watching it on tv. I feel that you can learn from tv alone depending on what your trying to learn, but i wouldnt suggest it.

Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, NewJonassen, D., Howland , J. , Marra, R.M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningfull  Jersy : Pearson Prentice Hall.

week 11 blog

Technology inside classrooms is very important at this point in time as we all know by now, using the virtual games are important to our education as  well as any other technologies used in the classrooms.  I feel that the civilization games have a lot of effect on the students learning about the ways of the world long before they were born. Even when we were in school
I remember playing different games to connect us to the teachings that a lot of teachers were getting us to learn. The three most important simulations to me, that I think would be good for a classroom setting is the discovery principle, committed learning principle and identity principle.

I think that simulations are very useful tools that could be used in the classrooms. Students can benefit and learn many different things from using these simulations during the learning and teaching process. These programs give students a visual way of learning and the students in this generation is basically learning most of their materials from a visual standpoint. There are also different websites that you can use to create your own simulation.

All the simulations are very useful in a classroom setting, but the ones that I feel are most important to the students are discovery principal, committed learning principal and identity principal. I feel that the simulations should be used more often because it is very helpful to students in the learning process.

Jonassen, D., Howland , J. , Marra, R.M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningfull Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersy : Pearson Prentice Hall.