Ch. 11 Engaging Teachers and Students in Learning and Self-Reflection

Focus Question: How can students become actively involved in assessment and evaluation using technology?

Evaluation is the one thing that scares and panics students when they hear about it. On the other hand, is also the one thing that teachers need to apply to know about the stundent's performance in school. How can we then involve the students in it? As we know, technology supports active roles by students in the learning assessment process. Different techniology tools students can be evaluated by are online survey and polls, students e-portfolios, classroom website, and discussion boards; and through this they will document their learning and preassess the student interest and knowledge

Tech Tool: Zoomerang

On this website, I can create my own online survey and polls and I can categorize it with the theme of my choice, using the templates for any specific topic. The membership is free if you only decide to keep it for a short period of time. There's, of course, a charge If you want to keep it for a longer period. Once I view the results online it gives me the capacity to create my own charts and graphs to demonstrate my results in a more illustrative way.

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Summary and Conclusion: As I mentioned earlier, students have a difficult time dealing with assessment and evaluations and want to get away from them as much as they can. This chapter not only is descrbing new ways to describe the students attention, but its also teaching abut the engagement of teachers. Teachers are so used to following the traditional teaching style, mainly because it makes it easier for them. On the other hand, I believe they should be trained with the technology interaction students are living today and take the extra mile to see learning productivity.

Ch.10 Promoting Success for All Students through Technology

Focus Question: How does assistive technology support efforts by teachers to reach all learners?
Assistive technology can be described as one device that holds different functions and features and makes the academic material easier to access for every student. In today's era, it minimizes the barriers that are made in between students and teachers,like the teacher lectures, reading materials, hand-outs, to make education productive in the students.

Tech Tool Link: Jim Martindale's Calculators

The Jim Martindale On-line Center provide a great abundance of calculation tools, making it effective especially for middle and high schoolers. It provides thousands of calculation programs, many of them containing online simulations and teaching modules. You can calculate anything from space to ice age to the capacity of any electronic device today. Is a much faster and economic way than the manual use of math. Definitely recommend it.

Summary and Conclusion: This chapter not only demonstrates how technology is refining the way students are learning, but it also explains about he expansion of technology to meet every student needs. Beginning with regular students to every special education student. I truly believe that assistive technologies is the extra hand that teachers have today to be able to teach their students freely and include their teaching activities with no barriers.