Blog # 2 Teaching for Understanding

Wow! This article was a good one. It had so many good points. To being let me point out that just as the article read " Teachers want students to master content and develop skills and strategies and attitude characteristics of successful learners." This statement being made, yes, I agree with it. That is the main goal of teachers. Now, I want to point out, what teacher wouldn't want a child to have as many resources as possible to achieve that goal. Technology is very useful in this situation. Technology allows students to access information in a variety of ways and in the least amount of time. Since it's not the same old fashioned way of listening to the teacher, technology has the advantage of getting the student motivated to find his or her own way toward the answers. Another advantage of having the children use technology is that they can find current up to date information. They aren't relying on knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation and is now suddenly obsolete. Teachers want their children to be motivated to learn, since technology provides with many different and unique ways of finding learning, it's a positive way to keep them focused. By motivating students to learn, they are more apt to retain the information and not forget it. Therefore, their test scores will go up but they will be able use that information later on in life. This article was very helpful to me as a future teacher becuase it reiterated the fact that students aren't as excited by only hearning my voice everyday teach only what I know, they are motivated by learning new things in modern more exciting ways. By combining teaching with technology and the old fashioned way of lecture, the children are better off nowadays than they were back then. There are more avenues to work with in order to make sure ALL children are learning. I enjoyed reading this article.