This week’s assignments focus on how students are obtaining information. For the most part teachers are being provided with older, more traditional resources to use to help teach students such as textbooks. Meanwhile, students are not as motivated as they could be. Howard Gardner also mentioned how using and integrating digital media into teaching is hopefully going to rejuvenate him as well. (Edutopia.org) If the equipment, software, and training were made available to teachers then I am sure it would rejuvenate their teaching styles and methods as well. Most children learn to use a computer of some type before school ever begins yet we place a textbook or a page of notes in front of them and expect them to memorize facts they probably are unable to connect with. Many of the speakers and the text focuses on using multimedia technology such as interactive gaming to increase students ability to problem solve as well as to motivate students and to peak their interest in a topic. We, as educators have to be able to provide students with more up-to-date ways to obtain the information we want them to learn. In order to prepare students for the careers of the future, we must update our ways of teaching students now.
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