The effects of technology on children is a complicated issue. There must be a balance between the benefits in terms of
enhancing the educational process and costs both monetary and academically. Children's brains are developing and
impressionable, frequent exposure to technology has an effect on the wiring the brain in different ways than those of previous
generations. What we have learned throughout history is that advances throughout history, determines how our brains
develops, and this applies to technology.
The Contemporary Issues Revolving Around Technology and Children
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201212/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-children-think-and-focus
One of the first comments about the use of technology and children is that they don’t learn how to focus but that isn’t
necessarily true. Yes uninterrupted reading helps children to focus on the content of a story or facts in a textbook but as
you will see in a later slide technology can also help children focus at faster rates.
Technology has been accused of being used as a replacement for physical activity and imaginative interaction along with
contributing to diminishment of the ability to develop social skills.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/children-and-technology-should-you-be-concerned.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_bavelier_your_brain_on_video_games
The Impact of Technology on Children
Video games are a very powerful tool. The can entertain, educate, be a distraction to learning or enhancement. It is the
responsibility of the teacher to figure out ways to use video games that will engage students. If we want to reach today’s
students we need to use the tools they have been using long before they stepped into your classroom. There has never been a
time that technology hasn’t existed in the lives of today’s children. We must embrace that impact technology has on our
student’s lives and use it to our advantage as an educational tool

Developmentally Appropriate Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2-kYxNyMc&index=3&list=UUdksaQxXH13BMeHo09MorBg
• Web-based technology is centered around a web
site with visuals and visuals. The content and
presentation needs to match the level of the students
abilities. Any age can be taught Newton’s Laws of
Motion but a kindergarten class will mostly need
the web site that uses cartoons as examples.
• Software based technology are the video games,
software applications such as wikis, Poppet, and
Snagit. These types of software can be used to
create presentations, share ideas, build concepts. A
wiki in 1st grade may have more pictures than
words as oppose to a high school wiki would be
filled with content with a few pictures to support
the content.
• Hardware are the physical things used to access
the web or create with the software. Just as with
everything else how the hardware is used in
kindergarten may differ from a high school class
but just about anything that is appropriate in
kindergarten can be used in any other grade.
It is incumbent upon the teacher to know what type of
technology will be appropriate for a class. Not all kindergarten
classes are created equal, the teacher should be the best judge
what is best for each class, each new year.

Promoting, Supporting and Modeling Creative Learning
The object of education is to prepare our students to
educate themselves throughout their lives” – Robert
Hutchins
Students are individual people and should not be looked at
as a class of 20-40 students. Each one of those students
are passionate about something different, and if teachers
know these passions they can connect to each one of their
students. Digital Natives states the students’ roles are
researcher, technology expert, thinker, world changer, and
self-teacher. The more teachers know about their students
as individuals the more they can connect learning styles
with innovated ways to reach each and every student with
the use of technology that will suit each students way of
learning.
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2007P/None/SugataMitra_2007P-480p.mp4
This video clearly demonstrates when students are given
the tools they need to use technology they become
innovate thinkers.

Learning Experiences that Incorporate Digital Tools
In any type of classroom setting,
drawing on student’s prior knowledge
becomes a perfect tool to use as the
background for new knowledge. When
the students can expand that knowledge
through the use of technology we are
providing them with the opportunity to
use the tools they will use for the rest of
their life.
As a caveat to this video, the first time I saw it I wished I could
do my elementary internship all over again just because we
would have done this project when I taught my kindergarten
class about aerodynamics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyucHMiftoh?v

Customize Learning Using Technology
Provide opportunities of learning through multiple forms of
technology. We’ve all heard of Gardner’s multiple intelligences, the
rules don’t change just because we are now using technology to
enhance our teaching methods. We all learn in different ways and
technology can meet the needs of all types of learning styles.
Give students options. This video of the young man’s love of
music was met through the use of technology but in a way that fit
his interest.
Independent practice is important. Students need the
opportunity to explore. You’re the teacher, you’re always
going to be there should a student request assistant.
Be flexible, yesterday the big interest may have been how to
create an animation, next week it may be exploring the
moon, technology has the ability to customize learning.
And remember flexible also means be prepared for those
days when technology doesn’t want to work.
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-ten-key-lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwpk2n0Ph4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Uw2hk2LnY

Collaboration Using Technology
Studies have shown that when students
collaborate it enhances their learning
experience. This third grade class
learned just how much fun it was through
collaborative learning. When students use
collaborative learning they become
responsible for each others’ learning. On
slide 4’s TED Talk remember the children
began to teach each other how to use the
computer which in turn enhanced
everyone's learning process.
These are the same reasons a teacher
should collaborate with parents and
peers, because you are now giving others
the opportunity to share in the
responsibility. Through technology its
possible to help a parent stayed involved
with the learning process with something
as simple as a school web site. The
success of a student is the goal,
collaboration and technology can support
the task. Of meeting that goal.

Modeling and Facilitating Effective Use of Technology
Simply being able to use technology is no
longer enough. Today's students need to be
able to use technology to analyze, learn and
explore. Digital age skills are vital for
preparing students to work, live and
contribute to the social and civic fabric of
their communities.
http://www.iste.org/standards/standards-for-students
This is a direct quote from the ISTE
website. The introduction of new
technology is happening everyday
and as teacher we must evaluate how
or if we are going to use any type of
technology and it must be based on
the students’ needs and learning
styles.
In this TED talk he makes a great argument for using computers to
do math. Why not? We still need to teach the meaning and value of
the those symbols that make up our numbers but most children by
the 2nd grade knows the difference between 100 and 1000. As a
teacher I must take into consideration; he is right in stating that
using computers allows students to apply the calculations, it allows
them to go beyond just the value of the calculation. Good teachers
need to research and evaluate new concepts and determine if and
how those concepts will benefit your students. This is true for all
subject matters, not just math. http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2010G/None/ConradWolfram_2010G-480p.mp4

Diverse Needs for Learners
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2010/None/TempleGrandin_2010-480p.mp4
The speaker is autistic and although her comments are more focused on the issue of autism, just about every one of her
comments can be applied to any student. I’ve already stated teachers need to find ways to teach students based on each of their
styles of learning, technology makes that possible. Should the class have only one computer or just a smart board, it is possible
to meet the needs for every student. Planning learning opportunities for every student can be accomplished. Possible solutions
can include creating stations with one of the stations being the computer or smart board. The one computer should include at a
minimum a CD encyclopedia, multimedia presentation software, spreadsheet software, Web browser, and an e-mail program.
Maintaining an external hard drive should be used to save only student’s work on a daily basis.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech092.shtml

Evaluate and Reflect on Effective Us of Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5iK7TMRuU
Feedback is a constant process in the classroom not just a
simple note when test scores and completed assignments are
completed. Formative assessment is better suited for today's
students but in order to be something more than a good theory
teachers need to provide feedback. Ipsative assessments is
related to improving and measuring that improvement. It is a
relative score based on where a student starts, often used in
sports and physical education classes. It a classroom it allows
the teacher to measure how far a students is growing in terms a
learning. When using ipsative assessments the scores are taken
in terms of the relativeness of where each students prior
knowledge was before they started and how much each student
learned beyond what they knew before the assignments was
started. Assessment in a partnering environment should be done
using tools the students use. With the technology it’s easier to
let students know how well they are doing much faster and
using the tools they use daily In order for assessment to be
effective it must be accomplished much faster than two weeks
after the completion. Technology will allow a teacher to assess
all the same subject but feedback is what is important to make it
relative to the assignment and the faster that assessment arrives
the better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lBhMSaFNhY

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