Posted in Student Use of technology on May 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Many folks will say no to this question. I’ve just finished a section of TPCK. In 2003, there was a study by Heeter that compared educational and commercial computer games. That study found that educational games were “easier to learn, less complex, shorter, less challenging to play….” This resulted in a need by [...]
Posted in Student Use of technology on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I finally got to play with some computer programming with a younger set. A few weeks ago, I heard about Scratch, an object based software programming tool. What fun we had! I spent no more than five minutes of their hour with me giving them the intro. They’re all on laptops, so I just [...]
Posted in Student Use of technology on May 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve been noticing the last several years the gender differences related to technology use. In our lab before school, about 27 students (grades 5 and 6 mostly) can be found interacting with each other and the Internet games they have found on sites like MiniClip. (I don’t allow point and shoot or fighting games if [...]
Posted in Student Use of technology on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
This morning we spent about 3o minutes working on a math manipulative site. The students were engaged, and seemed to enjoy the experience. For the last half hour, I sent them all to a site for a basic circuit construction kit. http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Circuit_Construction_Kit_ACDC We made simple circuits using the light [...]
Posted in Student Use of technology on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
For much of this year, I’ve seen two or three students come into the 5-8 lab with their aide. The students would go to BrainPop, and the time seemed well spent. After we received “Neighborhood Map Machine,” I trotted out to show them the new software and for the next few weeks the students would [...]
