The article's main focus was to discuss the reasons why teachers use technology in the classroom. The article's main reason was to discuss why teachers' beliefs about technology affect their technology practices. The article talked about the definition of teacher beliefs, the connection between beliefs and practices, the nature of beliefs, how beliefs are performed and changed, and implications for professional development and research. Lastly, the article provided statistical facts and information that was useful to us, the readers.
I think that our group collaborated very well together. We all meet Tuesday night on google drive and each completed a slide of the presentation at home. We used the comment section on google to provide feedback to each others work. In class on Thursday, we each completed an additional slide for the presentation and also created the last slide as a group together. After typing all of our information into the different slides, Lauren was in charge of finding pictures, Ashley W. was in charge of slide transition, and I was in charge of finding outside links and the video for the presentation. Each person in our group pulled their weight for this assignment and we all worked really well together.
Our presentation is called Teacher Beliefs: Technology in the Classroom. The different slides talk about teacher beliefs, different types of classrooms, and the different teacher experiences. We also provided a chart of statistics that we found throughout the article. We included a video about the top ten reasons to use technology in the classroom. Last, we added a few pictures and outside links that we found useful for the presentation. Finally, we added a slide at the end about our opinion about using technology in the classroom.
I thought your presentation was interesting. I read this article for class over the last few days and I think you chose some key points that it made to include. I also think that including links to outside resources makes your presentation stronger. It is also interesting to me that you completed this as a group in part without physically meeting. I think that this has some interesting possibilities for use in the future.
ReplyDeleteThe video that you posted related to the article very well. I think that in the next few years we will see technology implemented into more and more classrooms. The link "12 Easy Ways to Use Technology in Your Classroom, Even for Technophobic Teachers" was a fantastic source and I especially liked the idea it gave to use technology as a writing assignment.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great post, and it was interesting knowing that it was put together while each of you were at your own homes. That shows that you communicated and collaborated well with each other to get it done.
I thought that your presentation was put together very well. It was a perfect summary of the article and was presented very simply but included many outside sources to view if further clarification was needed. If I did not read the article before hand, I would get exactly what is was presenting from your slideshow. I also think that it is cool how from google drive your could all collaborate from different areas at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI'll be honest with you: I didn't think your presentation looked that interesting. Perhaps a change between colors in the slides could have helped.
ReplyDeletegreat presentation. It had many great facts and information as well as the importance for persuasion to adapt technology in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteYour presentation was very well! I feel that it was a real "call to action" addressing exactly what our assignment was in class. It's also nice that you and your group had a beneficial experience with Google Drive and such.
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