EDLD+5364+Teaching+with+Technology+Week+5

Technology integration will increasingly be the essential subject for professional development among teachers. As Web 2.0 and didactic materials evolve, its interactive nature as well as its improvement in audio, video and data speed has made it possible for students to demonstrate mastery, collaborate and be authentically assessed across different media and obtain feedback. Online learning will develop further more into a must for teachers and students to take advantage of. Drawing from the proven fact that technology improves student self-esteem, this week’s texts manifest that positive attitudes toward learning directly reinforce student effort. As teachers model determination toward accomplishment, students will appreciate and acknowledge the significance of working toward a goal; they will realize that efforts yield success, and that technology (by means of spreadsheets, rubrics, etc.) can help them follow and measure their own achievements.  The same way they have to educate students on how to learn by means of cooperative learning, teachers themselves must find ways to collaborate and plan together models of instruction which address the needs of affective, recognition, and strategic networks of the brain.