I really enjoyed this article because it showed how students benefits from different types of learning. I know that as a student, I am a hands-on kind of person. If someone is giving me directions for something, I have to be doing it at the same time. I need to be have the materials infront of me, so that I can practice things myself. I also need some sort of direction. I am one of those students who needs the items in front of them, but then also for the teacher to go over the assignment. I have found myself lost many times because teachers just let students go off and explore for themselves.
Back to the article! I think that its awesome for the students to be able to go out and collect the data and then go back to a computer and input it. I think that each student should be responsible for collecting their own data and then going back to a computer and inputing it. I realized that the teacher is trying to save time by having a "data master." But, I believe that if children are going to be comfortable with computers and the programs that they have access to, each student should have the chance to input their own data. Maybe the teacher could input the data into a "Master Spreadsheet" that the students can refer to. I also liked the program they used because it reminded me of Inspiration. The benefit of it is amazing because you can see students piece together the puzzle, as they create this web of information. I also liked how in Inspiration it would also give you a outline format, so that if you needed to write a paper or do a different assignment, a outline would already be avaliable.
I think that when the teacher incorporates Powerpoint into the assignment the outline/map will be benficial for the students. I believe it will help them to organzie the information they have, without much chaos. It is amazing to me what programs are avaliable for classroom teacher to incorporate into their cirriculum. I think it is a tool that is beneficial to teachers. but students as well.
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I am also a hands on learner, so i can really appreciate tools that allow students to do hands on learning!
I think as a teacher it is very important to identify and understand that all students learn differently. It is scary hearing how many people I talk to are hands on learners, yet when I reflect back upon my childhood we rarely did hands on learning activities. I am also amazed by all the technology that is availble that I have never heard or seen of! It is great like you said not only does the technology assist the teacher, it helps our main focus of the classroom, our students!
I am also amazed at how much technology is out there to make learning interesting and more fun. Like yourself, I am also a hands-on learner. I find that things tend to stick with me longer if I am shown a demonstration first then allowed to model it.
Yes, me too. I am definitely a hands on learner. This kind of teaching strategy would work much better than some lousy old text book work. This way the kids can apply what they are learning to something real. Sometimes when you are learning about something out of a book it does not feel real. When you can see and feel it, the connection is made much deeper.
Good points about the use of different learning styles, which is not even something that I thought about while reading the article. After reading your blog I started thinking about it, and how the teacher was able to incorporate a few different learning styles into one lesson.
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