Journal Post #2

                                                                

            Chapter Two: Transforming learning with unique, powerful technology

                            

                                       Photo Credit: Jeff Peterson from Flickr

 

Focus Question 6: How does technology provide feedback to support technology?

A student’s ideas and curiosities are supported by technology through a want for to learn and to be able to on their own without direction from a teacher. Examples of these technological tools used are email, discussion boards, blogs, instant messaging, amongst others.

Tech Tool 2.1: Web Resources for Visual Learning

A few of the web resources listed that seem useful and interesting are the E-Skeletons Project, it offers 2D and 3D versions of human and non-human primate’s skeletons. Physics Education Technology offers interactive simulations of motion, heat, electricity, light and other forces and properties. The Whale Hunt documents through slideshows nine days in which Eskimos planned and executed a whale hunt.

Chapter Summary Points

-There are many different technologies available to both teachers and students today. The three points of the chapter I found intriguing were that technology has transformed learning through visual learning, information research and retrieval as well as creative self-expression.

-A research project, Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents, has noted that less than 10% of the study’s 7^th graders check the accuracy of information they find online, while 80% don’t read Google search results because they don’t know how to accurately read the information.

-I like the quote and the point that was brought from The How People Learn series, it was found that human learners from infants to adults are “goal directed agents who actively seek information”.

Resources

Transforming Learning with New Technologies

Jeff Peterson via Flickr