Focus Question: How can students express their creativity using technology?
Word processing, desktop publishing, design tools, digital cameras, digital video movies, and podcasts support expressions of creativity by students and teachers. Fostering creativity involves establishing conditions in schools where students express new ideas, create new approaches, and envision new solutions. Using computers for writing and electronic communication establishes new patterns of self-expression and interaction among students.
Tech Tool Link: http://www.stonesoup.com/
This online magazine is such a great resource for every kid that desires to deepen into their creativity and find the amazing artistic gifts hidden inside of them. Is beautiful to know how this website makes every child feel important after not only letting them feel themselves when writing or drawing, but by also publishing it to the whole world; becoming a seed that could make a difference in another child.
Summary and Conclusion:
In this chapter you could find the main focus of technology today, which is the students, and the different types of ways that teachers can interact with the students with the different technology resources. It promotes the different ways that technology collaborates for the different learning style of students, and therefore, engage their learning.
Focus on the student and their learning needs is definitely a key to good teaching - but it is also a challenge when every student brings their own gift to the classroom. How do you address them all? Great tech tool - next time be sure to hyperlink to make easier for the reader to explore it with you! :)
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