Thursday, January 27, 2011

Technological Learning

           Technology is much more advanced than it was before, and could really increase the learning, and is realy effective. It also allows people to do assignments online to get work done quicker by typing instead of handwriting it, which can make it much easier. Typing things such as essays and posting information online is improving learning for modern day society.
          Posting information online is great, because people can just view it easily, so that many students would be viewing it without a problem. Blogs are one example of this, since the teacher can post the information about the assignment on their blog for their students. Your blog can also be used to type essays as part of assignments like I am doing right now. Students may also comment on blogs for assignments which teachers may check. There are websites that students may need to go to such as coin3, that is used for college and career units to help students decide their career. The only other way to get information about a career is by asking someone with experience in that career, which is not as easy as just getting on the computer. Coin3 allows you to take a test and find what areas you are best at, and give you a list of related careers. You learn about many different career choices faster than you could without the Internet. Study Island is used to prepare students for the NJASK as homework better than just doing packets of work for practice. Technology is even used in the classroom, with clickers to take tests instead of wasting paper writing down the answers. It is used everywhere all around us.
            Technology has really enhanced the way that we learn and get information. It was not this easy in the old times without electronics being as great as it is now. We use it almost all the time to improve our learning, not make it less.

1 comment:

  1. Great job. I like the way you put how people use technology and gave examples those ways. I also like the way you explained how and what the websites are used for and how they help us in our everyday lives.This was a great post.

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