Week 10 Reflection

     Throughout my career as a teacher, I am aware that there may be a struggle of keeping my student’s attention.  However, with the use of media, keeping students engaged in the lessons might be slightly easier.  By organizing my instructional strategies where students will need to use multimedia programs, they will become more engaged in the material.  For example, by allowing students to create projects using PowerPoint, or other multimedia presentation software such as Prezi, the students will enjoying instructing their own lesson about what they have learned in class.  By using digital projectors and document cameras, this gives the students a change of scene.  Other than staring at a white board for an entire class period, students can be welcomed up to the document being projected on the screen and work out the problem with the class.  This also engages the students with each other as well as the technology and lesson material. 

Technology and Student Engagement

     I would plan on using methods such as these in every day’s lesson.  Keeping students engaged in different ways allows them to understand the material they are exposed to in a better way.  As a high school math teacher, I would also incorporate the use of podcasts in order for students to receive further information outside of the classroom in order to help them on homework or studying.  By the result of how well the students respond what they are being exposed to would determine the factors of how often these ideas are used throughout the school year. 

     

Determining the best technologies to promote education and engagement would be based on the thoughts of the students as well as the school’s standards.  By allowing the students to have a say in how they think they learn best would allow them to enjoying learning the material.  This would also be best for me as a teacher to receive any feedback as to whether or not the presentation material is helping the students understand the material better.



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