Where's The Beef Blog Blake Stanger

Where’s the Beef Blog 9-14-10

Using technology in the classroom can help teachers to have a varied portfolio to demonstrate student growth. All though tests are still an important part of assessment and funding with the use of a portfolio a more accurate picture of student growth is possible.

Content is king in using technology. It is important to make sure that your students are creating products that display their understanding and contain content that shows their mastery of the subject, not the mastery of technology skills.

Making sure that students understand that the modes of creation and fluency in the subject will benefit them much more than understanding the technology. They will still have the information and ability to learn once the technology is obsolete. They will be through and accurate and understand the way the subject is to be experienced.

I plan to use technology in my classroom, but I will make sure that the content is shining through. I will make goals of the project and the content available to the students so they can choose their own assessment. This will make them more involved in their own learning process.

Collaboration will be much easier using technology and I plan to make that available to my students so they can create a focused product free of clutter and full of content. The ability to create a focused product together will give my students skill to succeed in todays technological age.

I had questions about some of the programs, what are VoiceThread, Comic Life, and Animoto?

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Blake