Week 2 Discussion Post

While watching the videos and reading the passages, there were several that stuck out to me, but I chose "increasing the technology available to students encourages, facilitates and supports student achievement........Technology use has similiar effects on self esteem." (pg. 391 of actual text but pg. 3 of the selection).

I totally think that some kids are more successful when being put around technology as a way to learn.  They spend so much time with technology now that sometimes they learn differently and need the technology to be successful. I use technology in my classroom as much as possible, even one of my literacy centers focuses on computer games and lessons that each child can spend at least 3 times a week on the computer doing language arts lessons. They fight to get on the computer and even hate it when we don't get computer specials each week because ours is on a Monday and we are off so many Mondays.

Kids can show how they are successful with video games, and we just have to show kids how they are just as successful when using technology to learn our lessons. I wish some kids could take all thier tests on computers, I wonder if they would be more successful than taking a paper based test. If they are successful then they have a higher self esteem, if we can take that success with the technology and move it into the classroom and be more successful in the classroom.

References:

Citation: Page, M. S. (2002). Technology-enriched classrooms: Effects on students of low socioeconomic status. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 34(4), 389–409. Retrieved from the International Society of Education at http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Number_4_Summer_20021&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&ContentFileID=830