Monday, April 2, 2007

Which strategies are most effective for teaching and learning with technology?

It is at the point where technology should be applied in almost all of your lessons. It is being proven that students learn and understand the material that much more when they have the opportunity to use technology.
I have found that you can not go wrong when using technology as a learning resource. The only thing that can go wrong, is when you have your back to students and they play game or surf the web for material that they should be doing outside of class. The best thing to do is to set the classroom up so that all the students backs are facing you. That way you can always see what’s on their screens. I also believe that you should not always be so reliant on technology, as a health educator it is important to stress the importance of technology to their learning, but you need to also teach them that using technology is a problem. Being outside and being expanding your domains of health often does not include anything to do with technology. Technology is great for learning resources, but do not use it so much that the students are being taught to become to reliant on it.

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