Week 7

I believe that teachers should go as far as possible when matching technologies to students. If the teacher know that her group of students will not respond to a certain type of technology, then do not use it. However, if a certain type of program will help, even just one student, then the teacher should go for it.

I think chats and IMs could be. A teacher would just have to monitor the chat and the IMs really close. Students could learn a lot by asking each other questions in a chat room and cold possibly learn a grate deal.

Asynchronous text-based communication can be better than face-to-face communication because everything can be stored and looked at later. Students can also do this from any place.
I think podcast are really cool. I don't really think that it enhances learning because the student would probably see the information as boring as a lecture. Students can still "block it out" and wonder into space. For the students to learn best, the students should be given the information activity.

I think that video games can help with studying. When I was younger, I played organ trail. The game helped with math skills and also taught about the history of the organ trail. It is how I learned about greater and less than. The article talks a lot about this helped develop students math skills. However, students that are good programmers are most likely good at math. I would let my children play a video game everyday if it had scientific proof that it would increase test scores.