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.