How can you engage all students? What is your ideal technology "set up" in your classroom? How would technology impact student achievement and engagement in your classroom?
I don't know if it's possible to engage all students 100% of the time. Odds are that a student will always have an off day when they haven't gotten enough sleep or they have some issue to deal with, they're teenagers after all. I think it's an impossible task for an educator to engage every student. But we should all strive to engage as many students as possible as often as possible. I think if you get a student for over 80% of a 90 minute block then you aren't doing so bad.
I actually just got made fun of by students for using an old projector and writing on the blank white sheets. Ideally I'd like to have an overhead projector with a remote, speakers, and a document camera. I still like to use "old technology" though and I don't think I'd ever really get rid of anything. Latin isn't exactly a brand new subject either. There are interactive websites websites that I do like to explore with students and if I had iPads or laptops in the classroom then I could use those websites and the book website to help the kids study. I know they could use computers for vocabulary study.
I think having technological tools as study aids or translation aids would be very beneficial in my classroom. My research project in our last grad class was to have a Latin 2 class have access to a computer lab to study vocabulary online before their quizzes and see if scores improved compared to a class without access to computers in school. Considering engagement in the classroom I think being 'up with the times' with current Latin articles and games would help with students. I already have students using iPads or iPhones to do work in the classroom.
I don't know if it's possible to engage all students 100% of the time. Odds are that a student will always have an off day when they haven't gotten enough sleep or they have some issue to deal with, they're teenagers after all. I think it's an impossible task for an educator to engage every student. But we should all strive to engage as many students as possible as often as possible. I think if you get a student for over 80% of a 90 minute block then you aren't doing so bad.
I actually just got made fun of by students for using an old projector and writing on the blank white sheets. Ideally I'd like to have an overhead projector with a remote, speakers, and a document camera. I still like to use "old technology" though and I don't think I'd ever really get rid of anything. Latin isn't exactly a brand new subject either. There are interactive websites websites that I do like to explore with students and if I had iPads or laptops in the classroom then I could use those websites and the book website to help the kids study. I know they could use computers for vocabulary study.
I think having technological tools as study aids or translation aids would be very beneficial in my classroom. My research project in our last grad class was to have a Latin 2 class have access to a computer lab to study vocabulary online before their quizzes and see if scores improved compared to a class without access to computers in school. Considering engagement in the classroom I think being 'up with the times' with current Latin articles and games would help with students. I already have students using iPads or iPhones to do work in the classroom.
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