Digital Literacy

I had a lot of fun with this assignment. I like technology and it was exciting to be introduced to new ideas. I really liked the glogster idea, but I didn't want to pay for the subscription so I used a power point instead. I think it's the same idea, but it looked like there are more options for the glogster. For sure some day I will pay for that!!

I wasn't able to attach the power point page.

I decided to find a fun activity to go with my activity 2 and teach more about properties of math. I found a few videos and ideas to help them cement the ideas that they had already learned. I agree that students learn better with digital text because they are really good at it and use that all of the time. As a teacher I will need to keep up with that so they will be engaged in learning. I found it a little tricky to remember how to use the programs, but I don't really think it would be hard after being used in a classroom. I also think students would enjoy creating their own digital text because I think that when you do other kinds of activities you are able to commit those things to long term memory.

I have talked to several teachers because of subbing and they all have different opinions of technology. Some think that you should never use technology because then students don't learn and others think you should only use technology. I feel like you should use both because they will be learning how to use those things in the work force anyway...

EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY!!!!