Articles Relating To Technology

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New classroom technology can be an asset in effective classroom management techniques.

The article tells how Jeff Paulson – an elementary teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant – works with teachers to improve instructional practice. He examines how if students are offered technological goals, such as games or activities involving the classroom technology it will avoid the students energy being aimed at misbehaving.

The article also looks at his use of technology in learning in the classroom. He uses Wikipedia, develops Podcasts etc with his students, making learning far more interesting for his students and leaving them with less idle time to misbehave.

A third grader introduced himself to Paulson a few years ago on registration day by writing down the web address of his YouTube video site. Paulson remembers this as one of his first wake-up calls to the relevancy technology can bring to student learning. “Just like adults,” Paulson remarks, “children are motivated to write when they know someone else is going to experience it. They have this innate need to create. And who wants to create or write something if it’s not going to be published?”

Technology – in the right instructional hands – gives students a culturally relevant way to publish their own writing, including text, audio, video, and multi-media. “It is differentiated, it is immediate, and it also provides a forum for feedback, by allowing readers to comment,” remarks Paulson.