The beginning of the How People Learn article, was no surprise to me. At my high school, you were not allowed to have your cellphones out during the day, and any technology was usually frowned upon. When it came to anything computer related, it was almost always home based, there was never any real integration with what was going on in the classroom. But the article offered ways that technology could be moved into our school system, and why it is quickly becoming an invaluable part of our education. The learning in context point made a lot of sense to me. When there was specific research for a paper that had to be done, it would have been extremely helpful to have taken the time in class to look up some things and then have the teacher guide us. The learning is active concept was also very technology based. Through technology, a student is constantly engaged in what they are doing, where as a lecture in a classroom can get very dull very fast. This is because students are just listening to what is happening, and can't get involved. In my personal experience, I do best in this type of class when I am using my computer to take notes, and even the internet to expand the notes I have already taken. Overall this article is a very good illustrator of different learning styles, and it also shows us how technology can be integrated to help benefit people of all learning styles.
The wave forms article was also very interesting. Telling us about the various wave forms that go through our internet was beneficial. I had never really understood the concept of bandwidth and what it did for our internet, and this article was very clarifying. And then all of the coding and compression steps are how different file can reach our computers. Also learning about different kinds of files is good because then we know how to save our files, and how they will translate to other computers.
The multimedia article was good for presenting. Each section made sense of how we could effectively use text, pictures, sound, and video to get our point across. We can clearly use technology in this manner is effectively present material to any kind of audience, and be able to have them be on our level of thinking based on our examples.
Yes, I feel that students almost have to use technology now days, in order to become interested. It is somewhat sad that we are consistently "glued" to this phenomenon we have created, but it has helped our species progress. But using it to incorporate active learning is very important. "We learn by doing."
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ReplyDeleteGood thoughts! Please break up your reflections into paragraphs, skipping a space between paragraphs. It will greatly increased the "readability" of your posts.