Assng #7 Chp 11

Illustrate important considerations of effective labs and hands-on activities when guiding student learning with and about technology in the various subject matter areas.
To have a productive hands-on activity the teacher must prepare ahead of time. She/he must have all the tools for the lab whether that means computers, paper, crayons and so forth. Preparation is the key to success. Once you have everything in order you want to introduce the lab to the students before hand. Allowing them to wrap their minds around the up coming activity. I feel its best to introduce the lab a day ahead of time. This way the students are focused on you and not the task at hand. During the lab you want to clearly state what your going to be doing and make the instruction clear and easy to follow. Leave time for questions and allow students enough time to mess around with the program. At the end of the lesion or during the teacher can ask leading questions to see if the students are engaged in the lab. She/he can evaluate the students verbally verse quiz; easy and can be fun.
How would you handle different levels of cognition when using computer? How do you keep Jimmy up to speed up on the steps with out slowing the class down?
During middle school I had a great computer teacher who allowed enough time for typing class and welcomed questions. He made sure we had all the tools to complete the task.

Assgn #5 Chp 3

Recommend activities that support learner centered explorations of subject matter content to engage students in using multimedia as a productivity tool, communication tool, research tool, and problem-solving and decision-making tool.
- Put a slide show together. The topic would be, Life of a frog. Requirements would be to incorporate pictures, data, text, and the basic anatomy.
- They could also create a video with all of the information. It could be still or voice.
- Create a map of the counties/states/towns they have visited. Either by mind mapping or creating a map on the computer.

I like that education is now incorporating technology into our curriculum but what do educators do when their school district can’t afford computers?
This was semi the case in Cambodia (yes-I know it’s a different country). What about the inter city schools. I have heard of some schools not having enough books for their students. How do we as a teacher incorporate technology into the curriculum?