Reflective Blog
#2:Research in Educational Technology
Laura Dorantes
Jamil, M., &
Shah, J. H. (2011). Technology: Its potential effects on teaching in higher
education. New Horizons in Education, 59(1), 38-51.
Authors Mubashrah Jamil and Mamil H. Shah state that ICTs
have changed the relationships in regards to adopt or give up technology or to
use it more, less or in different ways.Changes in many cases may be gradual, dramatic, predictable, and even unexpected.In the article I researched, there are tables
in which show recent changes in higher educational institutions (HEI) are due
to expansions of applications of technological approaches in teaching and
learning.Both authors strongly believe
that science and technology are the challenges that are facing education and
training systems in developing countries and transition economies are
immense.The argument was that we must try
to achieve goals that require a fundamental change in the ways learning takes
place and the relationship between teachers and learners.UCTs
incorporated the concept with doing and making to learn with technology, which
motivate the learners to experience things around them at their own pace.This article was primary written for
educators.Large majority of teacher
agree that ICT could have positive impacts for students’ motivation and
attainments.
This is an amazing blog!
It has great online math games and videos. Some videos will walk you step-by-step on how
to work an algebra or geometry problems.
There are useful technique videos educators can use with their
students. The blog is easy to read. Well picked colors and graphics. It doesn’t have too many gadgets that take
your attention away from the main idea of the blog. There’s plenty of links that are amazing. It has a lot information educators and
students can use when struggling with any type of math. I would highly recommend it to educators,
parents, and students.
I love this Blog!! Mrs.
Patterson is a 1st grade teacher in Virginia who loves teaching
children to read and working with technology.
If you look at her blog and check her wikispace, you can really tell she
loves technology. It’s a very informative blog site for parents and educational
for students. This blog was easy to
navigate. It’s not too busy. I really
enjoyed the graphics and fonts. I
recommend it to other educators and parents who have young ones at home. There’s a lot of educational information
young ones can look at such as: Kid’s Corner videos, math, grammar, and the
word wall all under “my wikispace” and learn something.
This blog was created by Paul Bogush. He is an 8th grade social studies
teacher who talks about how technology and blogging has changed his life. I thought this blog had too much information
and too many gadgets. It didn’t have
enough colors. I lost interest after a
while because it was too long and there was no change in font, color, or
size. It had a basic tool bar in which I
was not interested. I would not
recommend this blog to anyone.
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This blog was created by M. Ells
Perry. In her blog she talks about what
a blog is, what they can be used for, and how easy it is to start a classroom
blog. I like how it is well organized
and the choice of colors. I think she
has a great choice of font, graphic, and colors for her title, it’s catchy! She has plenty of gadgets. Those gadgets are of perfect size and caught
my attention to read the information around it.
It is an easy to follow blog, not busy at all. I like the many links to blogs she has
available on the side bar. They’re very informative. It’s a great resource for teachers,
administrators, and librarians to get started and creating a blog. Definitely recommend it to these educators. *****************************************************
This blog is a conversation about
integrating student cell phones into classroom curricula. Liz Kolb’s intention for creating this blog
is for educators and integrating student’s own cell phones into classroom
learning. How is that going to
happen? I would love to find out and see
it happen! Even though the blog has no color but black, which I did not like at
all, it has a lot of good information for educators. It has plenty of gadgets in which each have a
brief paragraph next to each one giving explanations and details of the topic. It looks busy, not as far as color, but as in
too much information posted. I would recommend
this blog to educators.
