Tech+Integration

1 Technology Integration  Video

The Technology Integration essay is where we watched a video and had to eplain how that video used technology, what we liked about it, and how will we use the techology in a classroom.

 The video that I watched was “How Kipp teachers learn to teach critical thinking.” What I liked about this video is that teachers actually stepped back from just cramming their students with information and allowing them to use critical thinking on their own. The teachers used seminar rubrics to help them out on giving instruction on what works best in a classroom. The extent of the rubric went as far as how the desks were positioned in the class room. It all contributes to the best learning environment possible for the students. The teachers integrated the students into the lessons by giving each student a role so that the student can participate.

 Technology integration is a good way to keep the student’s attention. The average student spends five hours a day watching TV, being on the computer, or playing with their cell phone. Having and applying technology in the classroom will keep the student’s attention because it is what they are used to. Using power point or a smart board with cool animation or colors is in a way more entertaining than using a chalkboard. In the video, the teachers had a seminar rubric or the “fishbowl” technique to assign little jobs to the students. At the beginning of class, a student might be assigned a silent argumentative job. At the end of the teacher’s lecture, the student will be required to say that they agreed or disagreed to a particular point in the lesson. This technique I find useful because the student will pay attention because they know that they have to put in their opinion at the end of the lesson. I will definitely use the technology demonstrated in the classroom because it is affective and it is, in simple terms, a form of entertaining. For if the teacher becomes bored with the lecture; the students became bored twenty minutes prior.