Technology literacy plays a significant role in students learning. It is therefore crucial for educators to incorporate learning lessons and techniques that will help students build and strengthen their technology skills (McLaughlin, 2015). The literacy web tool that I am interested in exploring more extensively is Diigo. Diigo is an annotation tool that encourages students to collect resources, gather web pages, and add sticky notes and comments on their web page provided from the site (Diigo, 2017). Essential this site serves as a personal library where students can make notes and post interesting and helpful sources all in one place (Diigo, 2017). Students will also have the opportunity to share their web pages with classmates. What makes this site exciting is that students can upload a PDF file right onto their web page and make notes directly on the document. Therefore, students can opt to read science articles, take notes, highlight important information and complete assignments right on their computer.
In today's education, students are expected to read and understand complex texts, read higher level informational texts, expand their academic vocabulary and communicate their reading and learning abilities through writing, to meet the Common Core Standards (Buehl, 2014). By using this annotation web tools, students can build and develop essential literacy skills that will help them build sophisticated vocabulary, comprehend complex text, and understand important
I taught all five of Mr. Smith’s seventh grade English classes on November 10, 2014. Before designing my lesson, I met with Mr. Smith. We discussed the needs of his students. He felt that the students needed more practice expanding their reading abilities, citing recent changes to the Virginia Standards of Learning test as a deciding factor. The English SOLs ask students to read and analyze text that they are unfamiliar with. The only way for teachers to prepare students for the SOL, is to help them learn how to self evaluate and analyze unfamiliar text. We discussed what reading strategies students were already familiar with, these included Cornell notes, annotation, and predicting. Mr. Smith said though students had been taught how to annotate students rarely used this strategy on assessments. I decided after our discussion that I would design a lesson that reiterated the skills required for annotation, as well as examining unfamiliar non-fiction text.
Select a complex, meaningful, and relevant text. All students must read and use annotations for the appropriate portion of the text that is being discussed. Students are grouped using a variety of factors based on lexile scores, learning types, and workability of the
Technology literacy is a powerful tool for success and it has allowed me to teach my mom new ideas and helped her to adopt a fearless attitude towards technology literacy. My journey began when I was in the fifth grade, and my elementary school received a classroom of apple computers. Each week, we had computer class to use this new technology. Since then I have kept up with the evolution of technology. My mom, on the other hand, graduated from college before the use of any technology other than an overhead projector.
Another requirement of 11th grade in the Technology Literacy area is to understand and use technology systems. We plan to type the letters to students in other countries which would fit the Iowa Core requirement. We plan to do this every other week depending on how long it takes them to respond. By using a website called EPals we are able to contact these different nations. Another idea that was brought up was to Skype with the other classes about once a month. A third requirement we discovered on Iowa Core was and Employability Skill is to work with others productively and appropriately. We will be working with others when we do peer editing. There are more ways that our project will fit Iowa Core requirements but these were just a few.
I observed a science unit lesson in the classroom that is reinforced by the use of technology. For example, students started a science unit with the life cycle of a butterfly. In technology class, students were instructed to explore the life cycle of animals by using the Portaportal, which is a web based bookmarking utility that teachers use to bookmark key websites and books students can read online. They were also allowed to watch videos on learn360 about the life cycle a butterfly. Upon returning to the class, students habitually use this prior knowledge to reconnect to the teacher’s lesson. Students also use i-Ready, an engaging online assessment and instruction program for math and reading and myON, an online literacy program that reinvents the ways in which students and teachers interact with text by providing an instant access to a library of more than 10,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, and reading tools. Both i-Ready and myON engage students in a fun and interactive online learning. The programs reinforce early reading skills and enable children to experience exponential literacy growth.
The internet, otherwise known as the world wide web, was discovered and popularized in 1969, along with a new way of thinking. The internet has become our TV, maps, clocks, radios, and our typewriters, revolutionizing the technology world. Nowadays, people can go onto their personal computers and find anything and everything they were looking for simply at a click of a button. Although some critique the internet for making our population dumb, the internet is full of available and efficient resources, if given the patience. Students growing up in the 21st century know the evergoing and rapid changes of today’s technology, but one way to be engrossed in writing and reading is to go deeper into the internet by not only scratching the surface, such as Wikipedia and Google, but looking into primary resources and studies contained in the web. By doing this students will ultimately concentrate more on the given task, be less apt to skim read, and use the internet as a helpful resource rather than a harmful one.
Malcom X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Today, technology has impacted classrooms in many beneficial ways, but there is always a demand for answers of how it will change education next. Modern education has learned to collaborate with technology to achieve better results for the future generations. By taking a step toward improving education and new system has been used to track a student’s progress in school and relay it back to the parents via automated text message. Long before there were smartphones, it was a student’s responsibility to ensure their parents about their progress in their studies. However, frequent communication between parents and teachers about the child’s academic performance to be a vital component to their education. Automated school notifications can improve a student’s overall development by allowing the parents to be more involved, an increase in the student’s performance and GPA, and providing an easy form communication between the parent and school.
As we go through the 21st century, technology in the classroom is becoming more predominant. Devices provided by the school such as tablets, ipads, computers, and calculators have had a major impact in today's educational system. Not only do these devices help students with everyday school assignments, but applications such as google classroom, which are on the devices provided by the school, help students organize their work. Technology in the classroom improves engagement, improves knowledge retention, encourages individual learning and encourages collaboration, which is every teacher's dream for his/her students.
What once was a 4.0 student is now a person facing D’s and F’s on his next report card. Vishal Singh is a typical 17-year-old at Woodside High School, he was considered to be a motivated young student, until like most other kids in this century, he got increasingly captivated by the internet after getting his computer in sixth grade. Since then it's been late nights, and GPA downfalls (Richtel). The increasing screen time that teenagers are exposed to leads to distractions that often always lead to school becoming a their second priority. Students are constantly distracted by social media, when they should really be focusing on broadening their education, in order to create a better future for themselves, and to set better goals for the education systems we have today. Technology is controlling teenager’s education, but education is not controlling their technology, and this causing students to be encapsulated in the cyber world in the classrooms, and halls of almost every twenty first century high school. Knowing this, we need to limit electronic use and students must shut off their devices during studying hours and limit computer use to school related topics, in order to create a brighter future for our educational systems.
Technology is advancing rapidly and because of this, our lives are constantly changing. We have to adapt to the changes in our world. Technology is one of the most significant and beneficial changes in our history and schools need to be taking advantage of this. While some schools believe technology is a distraction that hinders learning, technology should be integrated into classrooms because it provides a large amount of information and prepares people for the use of technology in their futures.
Many people have faith that technology might be the most powerful factor as each generation after generation passes by. Since the late 1800s, technology has always been the exact refinement for becoming the greatest supremacy in America. It has transformed the features of many’s aspects. In every circumstance, not only has it shown its presence as a benefactor, but it has also had an impact on education that can be proven to be a great source, and has done nothing, but improve the capacity of learning in school. Technology in the classroom is beneficial because it overcomes the limitations, improves the standards of health, and develops the individual’s mind to its greatest knowledge.
An article posted in Jamaica Gleaner headlined “Technology Can Improve Learning”, (The Gleaner, 2012) explains the importance of technology in the teaching-learning process for students in Jamaica. The article proposed that there would be a significant turnaround in pupils’ performance who are usually considered as the poor performer. Undoubtedly as exists in industrialized countries, technology as a tool to aid in the delivery of education, is an inevitable addition to the process. In a comment in the article The Minister of Education also intimated that the plan of the Ministry of Education was to use information technology to improve pedagogy in the school system. Essentially ICT are great technological devices that can be used in carrying out this task for the present and future generation.
In the twenty-first century, it seems like technology is taking over the world, but more specifically, in the United States of America. Clearly, technology has become part of the daily lives of Americans. Now days, in 2017, people would rather have their attention on an electronic device instead of what is happening around them. Society has changed dramatically over the past ten years due to the constant improvements in technology. Moreover, it seems like the use of the commonly used print resources, like books, newspapers, and magazines, that were essential to the development of businesses and schools are slowly being replaced by modern technology. Specifically, when it comes to schools, the way of teaching is being modified by the
Did you know that all the knowledge in this world can be accessed within the touch of your fingertips? With technology today, it has become easier and more convenient to access any information you would like using multiple devices: computers, iPhones, tablets, etc. The use of social networking and research done with appliances has become more common within society. Technology has been able to positively affect many aspects within our human lives, especially within education. In today’s era, technology has taken over a majority of our lives; it is a way to connect with our peers and society. This will allow us to broaden our horizon in different ways of teaching and the educational system. There are no limits on what you can educate today’s society with technology. The rapid change in technology is slowly edging its way into the educational system and holds the potential to profoundly reshape education. Educational technology is beneficial for students, teachers, and school systems across the country.
Education is also another field in which technology has expanded. It has opened up thousands of resources for students to access while at school and even at home. “In the past, teachers relied on actual meetings to interact with their students. It was only during physical meetings that teachers could deliver learning materials and instructions to learners. However, nowadays, this kind of absolute dependence on physical meetings is gone. It is easy for teachers and learners to stay in touch via email and other internet-based services such as file-sharing and Instant Messaging applications.” (Raza, 2017)