The day of standing in front of a class, lecturing students, while they take notes are just about out the window. When I began teaching, after spending 23 years in the military, I believed that the students retained more information if they copied the notes down that I gave them. I would not allow the students to take out their phones and record the slides. I am one that love the use of technology in the classroom, but I was not allowing the students the opportunity to utilize the technology.
Children, at a young age can operate small computers (cell phones) that can fit in the palm of their hand. They can associate, their favorite learning show or cartoon with certain apps. One thing that I noticed; children become motivated to accomplish the task when technology is the reward.
Technology in Classroom:
In the article, The Critical Success Factor in Accepting Technology in the Classroom, tells us that it is at school that students can learn how to use technology to help transform information into knowledge. Many schools are equipped with different technological devices and many students enter the classroom with their own devises. Incorporating technology into the classroom helps close the access technology, as well as technological skills across racial and socio-economic groups. Incorporating tech into the classroom daily motivates students to explore the endless possibilities gaining knowledge in a shorter period of time, prepares students for the future, connects better with the students, builds a better learning environment, boost collaboration and supports learning.
Learners Engagement:
In the journal Movement and engagement in flexible, technology-enhanced classrooms, tells us that technology- enhanced classrooms are characterized by a variety of affordances designed to encourage learner engagement, such as mobile and nestable furniture, writable surfaces, and access to power, internet, and content-sharing capabilities. (2021)
Engaging students in a classroom with the use of tech has become a mainstay. Many of today’s teachers have incorporated some type of technology in their everyday lesson plan. In 2020 majority of the schools had to close the doors to in-person learning, to student’s learning on a digital platform and teachers teaching on digital platforms, such as Zoom and Google Classroom to name a couple. Because learning from a digital platform, was brand new for many students and teachers, it raised a sense of curiosity of technology will engage students with the use of technology. Epistemic curiosity refers to a desire to gain knowledge to explain the causes of gaps in one’s understanding or why something is happening the way it is (Berlyne, 1965). As an educator, we must create a since of curiosity in the classroom to incorporate the use of technology and create lessons to engage each student in their individual learning. So many teachers have already incorporated the use of different educational software in the class to heighten the learning of the students. Without the use of tech in the classroom, we are inadvertently perpetuating a growing digital divide in our society.
Conclusion:
How can technology ignite learning in the classroom? Technology ignites learning in the classroom by piquing the interest and curiosity of the student, Due to the flexibility of having technology in the classroom, doesn’t limit the student to the classroom but it allows the student the opportunities to venture outside of the classroom. With hundreds of thousands of recourses at your fingertip shows the student and teachers the important of tech and how it ignites learning.
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Curiosity
Curiosity is what opens the door to new opportunities for learning. Like Reiser and Dempsey say, motivation appears when curiosity rises (Reiser, R., & Dempsey, J. (2018)). Curiosity is something that appears out of nowhere by something that catches their eye or attention. It is great when students have curiosity for the class that is being taught because the motivation will come hand in hand. the important part is to keep students engaged and curious about the lecture. Nowadays, technology is something that is already in class and it is hard to teach something without the use of technology. Some people still believe that technology can not help anyone learn anything. However, according to multiple studies, technology increases people's…
Mastery
Technology should not be the reward. The extrinsic motivation to use technology for learning will wain with the interest in the specific software, game, character, etc. Integrating technology in the classroom as a tool and resource allows student motivation to be built on mastery.
Using technology, students can master content at an accelerated rate. Access to more resources at a rapid (almost instantaneous) rate and the ability to watch, read, observe, and comprehend individually makes technology vital for objective, content, and concept mastery. Learners have greater oversight of their own learning through research and discovery practices (Reiser & Dempsey, 2017, 81). Using objective mastery learning principles, technology gives learners control of repetition, spacing effect, and retrieval practice (Yeung …
Curiosity
Human psychology is underpinned by curiosity, which is crucial in promoting learning engagement. The author highlighted how technology can spark students' curiosity and enhance their learning engagement in the case study. Curiosity can be defined as a desire to obtain knowledge or understand why things happen, which aligns with Berlyne's (1965) concept of epistemic curiosity. The EBSCO article demonstrated that introducing technology into the classroom can ignite students' curiosity as they become motivated to explore and understand technology's capabilities and possibilities for learning. The article emphasized that technology catalyzes curiosity by presenting new and interactive ways of learning. Educators are encouraged to harness students' innate curiosity by incorporating technology into their teaching methods to drive engagement in individualized education…
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Satisfaction
Due to the regularity of technology in everyday life I believe learners are more likely to become engaged with classroom activities involving technology. As a current educator I find it easier to communicate with students through the means of technology as well as using apps and programs as a way to evaluate and transmit learning outcomes. Any chance that I have to turn a learning experience into a game or competition greatly increases the retention of information I am trying to present to the student. “Feeling good about accomplishments and not feeling inappropriately bad when not successful is a result of several external and internal factors.” (Reiser & Dempsey, 2018)
Meaningful To Me
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When I was in high school the technology was slide projectors and TV carts, or going to the library or computer lab to do research. I wish I had access to today technology when I was in school. I would have been more motivated and probably tried harder.
Classroom Technology
Incorporating technology into the classroom not only engages students but prepares them for the future. Technology is ever-evolving and is going to be a part of our lives more and more. This is why it is important to make sure our students understand how to use the technology. When the schools' closed down due to Covid-19 a lot of students had a hard time adjusting to virtual classrooms. That is…