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When it comes to educating our youth one always has to reinvent their selves when implementing technology inside of the classroom. This chapter focused on many different soft wares that educators can use to enhance learning inside of the classroom. The first thing that came to mind was will I ever grant my students the opportunity to explore the computer. The term coding came to mind when I was reading the section on building, inventing, and creating software. In society today I feel like female students are as interested in coding and building programs on the computers like male students currently do. The real question is are the students using the computer to build programs that will help them learn or are they creating programs that are not useful. After reading about the various ways we can use programs like google earth, kid pix, and Microsoft office, I began to think of how I can dig deeper and create lesson plans that allow students to problem solve and discover a list of questions that they have on a particular topic. When it comes to students playing video games based on educational topics I do agree that using the rubric for evaluating higher order thinking would be beneficial inside of the classroom. Currently whenever students ask me to go on the computer to play mathematical games i automatically tell them to go cool math games that com where students are able to learn and have fun at the same time. As an educator what I have to do is draft up a list of video games students normally play online and use the Rubric for evaluating to see if students are meeting my expectations by playing these games. As a educator I would have to follow the steps of minimizing the use of games that teach isolated skills, discuss games and their content, scrutinize games that function on points won or lost, and actually play the games together with the students.
My Two Questions:
How do you designate a whole period in playing educational video games with your students without being questioned by school administration ?
How do we encourage more female students to learn about computer and coding on the computer?
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