Week 7

When a teacher decides to bring technology into the classroom they should teach their student that technology so that they may be able to follow along or even go ahead of the game on their own. The better the students understand what you are doing the eaiser it is for them to understand the material.

Depending on what is going on in the classroom is when the instant messaging and chats are either classified as a nucents or help. If the students are now on their independent study and have time to them selves to go over their work then maybe the instant messageing is helping them to understand. If the teacher is going over material and students are not paying attention then the im can be a great distraction.

I do not believe that text based communication is really any competition with face-to-face, as to any real realation. If you are just typeing or texting words to someone then the words sent may be obscured in ways they were not meant to. A simple request may be construed into a rude comment or demand through text. For if you are in a face-to-face conversation then the individual you are communicating with is now in tuned to your context clues, you volume, accent, and tone. It is much less likely for them to misunderstand meanings of certain comments. Maybe in a work environment when an employee must speak to the boss but would like to keep it professional and not inturrpt thier day to day schedule. An email would most likely be the best way to go.

Depending on the class podcasts could be of great influence in the classroom, when a student is at home doing homework and needs help on a subject they can simply jump online and see what they dont understand so they can finish.

Depends on the videogame. it keeps learning new information that may otherwise be boring intresting and keeps you involoved. you may be able to learn faster and contain more in the fact that you are enjoying learning. yes. yes i would let my children play everyday but only for a designated amount of time so that they may also stay healthy in other asspects of their everyday lives.