Workshop Three Blog

• Reflect on how you could use “Podcasts” to distribute your lessons.

Podcasts would work to record lessons and distribute them for students who are absent, or just need a review of what was went over in class that day. It would need to be in video format so that the explanation of the problems would be visual as well as audio. I could see how this could be beneficial for new students who need to play catch up midyear and for ESOL students who need to have just that extra chance to see the lesson. I'm not quite sure how it would work or how much more helpful it would be in comparison to the amount of work it would be.

• What do you expect are the students’ affective outcomes when the students use this form of technology to learn?

The outcomes of this would be more reinforcement of the lessons taught in class. It would be a huge benefit for our ESOL students who need time to process the English instructions. It would be helpful for students who have missed class. I think the podcasts would give students more confidence while doing their homework to be able to fall back on the video if they have a question.

Workshop Two Blog

• What do you expect are the students’ cognitive outcomes when the students use technology?

I expect the students to be able to think at a higher level on certain concepts as well as be able to apply their knowledge to real life situations. I would think that with the use of technology, students would be able to be able to express their knowledge in more creative ways. For instance, given the project to create a video podcast of a mathematical topic, the students would have to know how to explain the topic instead of just the process of using the topic or concept to solve.

• What do you expect are the students’ affective outcomes when the students use technology?

I expect students to have a greater confidence in their knowledge after using technology. I think that when students have the ability to explore concepts and create their idea of it, they have more ownership of the knowledge than if they had just listened to a teacher explain the concept. While I think that explanations are definitely necessary, I also see the value in allowing students to take the explanations further by looking into it on their own and learning how to explain it.