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- 1. John Thomas Engquist ED 633
- 2. Did you know?? I. Nearly one-third of students in America’s 100 largest school districts will fail to graduate on time. (Thomas & Date, 2006) II. Many students today feel school is not important to their futures in the “real world”. III. The pace of learning for them is too “slow” and boring. (Marks, 2009)
- 3. IV. They want to receive information YESTERDAY! V. Your student wants to be an active, collaborative learner. (Marks, 2009) VI. Use of emerging technology in class keeps your student engaged and effective! (North Carolina Center For Educational Statistics, 2007)
- 6. Reading, writing and comprehension skills can be improved with just a simple computer, webcam & projector (Yang, 2010). Improvements can be made in math, writing and reading with only a small investment in PILE technology! (Yang, 2010)
- 7. For our students to reach their full potentials, and compete in our global economy, it is something we cannot afford to ignore!
- 8. Thank you! John Engquist Email: engquists@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- I. The divide between teacher and student is at an all time high. A recent study by the U.S.Department of Education found that 31% of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation’s largest 100 public school districts (Thomas & Date, 2006). II. Students feel disconnected from the school curriculum and perceive the school experience as irrelevant to their future success as adults living and working in the “real” world. III. According to Diane Marks (2009), the problem is that the teachers are working from their own perceptions about engaging curricula and pedagogy and often teach in the way they were taught. This preferred pedagogy is characterized as serious, methodological, individual, and slow-paced.
- IV. Students today are used to getting information exceedingly fast and often parallel process and multi-task. They blossom in environments with frequent rewards and instant gratification. V. Research shows that knowledge gathering for Millennials is socially constructed, and that learning is achieved through active engagement of the learner. (Marks, 2009) VI. Of a sample of 100 different 5th grade classrooms, students surveyed who had teachers that used emerging technology in their lesson plans indicated a stronger interest in learning about reading, math and science than those classrooms that did not. Those same classrooms also tested higher on average in these subject areas than those that did not incorporate any emerging technology. (North Carolina Center For Educational Statistics, 2007)
- 1) In an empirical study of 15,000 New York state high school students, research showed that when larger quantities of technology were present in the classroom, little improvement in student performance was seen. (Lei, 2009) 2) We need to tailor the technology used to the subject matter or type of student audience being focused on. (Lei, 2009) 3) Example: The Twitter experiment. Social-communication technology used by social studies teacher to group of struggling high school students. This provided instant positive reinforcement and increased these students “self-esteem and created positive attitudes towards school.” (Lei, 2009)
- 1) Research shows that traditional methods of teaching can no longer be utilized to capture the interest of children who are being reared during the rapid growth of the computer age. (Harvey-Woodall, 2009) 2) Technology allows students to move from simply learning about something to learning from something: “There is a huge qualitative difference between learning about something, which requires only information, and learning from something, which requires that the learner enter into a rich and complex relationship with the subject at hand.” (Harvey-Woodall, 2009) 3) Robert J. Marzano (2004) analyzed the results of more than 100 research reports on instruction, involving more than 1.2 million students and found: -The use of technology in classrooms helped improve cooperative learning. -Technology has greatly increased, on average, a student’s ability to recognize analogies and classify similarities and differences. In essence, it improves student’s problem-solving.
- 1) A study of 15,000 Taiwanese 2nd grade ESL elementary school students saw an increase in reading scores, partly due to video-capture virtual technology to bring words to life. (Yang, 2010) The only pieces needed: computer, webcam and projector. 2) Other cases involving low-cost interactive technologies to promote a Physically Interactive Learning Environment (PILE) were also shown to help improve elementary student’s scores in reading, writing and math. (Yang, 2010)
- Today’s millennial students have grown accustomed to multi-tasking via emerging technology and expect to receive information quickly and in multiple forms. Research clearly shows that it is not a question of if we should further invest in these technologies, but when we will have them in place. For our students to reach their full potentials, and compete in our global economy, it is something we cannot afford to ignore!