Digital Badge #C

How technology promotes....
 critical thinking and problem solving

Technology has revolutionized the way we find and learning information. Google and the other search engines has become powerful tool with a broad range of information. Children of the 21^st century learn how to read visual images, create and interrupt new ideas starting at a young age some children even ask lots of questions about things about things they have learned from the Television, the internet, video games, or even what they have learned from us as their parents and their teachers. Online learning games,  activities interaction children find engaging and challenging  Because of the interaction between the game activities and the children growing up in the new world of technology children have learned the basics very young of how to access information in their outside of school lives. Even if the information learned is not retrieved in the right way it’s learned without the restrictions of grammar, and does not limit what they have learned. Like when children are first learning how to speak us as parents are so proud of their first couple of word that we ignore the fact that it may not be grammatically correct. Teaching and correcting this come with age progression. I think we as educators sometimes forget this with all the educational  demands placed on students and teachers how children are allowed to develop without trying to rush them along this area of development is an area that we let children take their time and develop. Digital media literacy promote visual learning. In this children learn ways to think critically it requires children to use their brain in a combination of multidimensional ways. Visual literacy I think is important it engages students in active learning. Speaking as a parent this is what helps my son the animations, the singing, and letter recognition and recall from Starfall helped my son learn his Alphabets. He loves the interaction and feedback he receives for the computer that he does not get from a traditional classroom setting.



Expressing Creativity  

Personality Traits I think are the building blocks of creativity within individuals that makes us all unique. Since the 1800’s of traditional education it seemed to me that we are behind the time change where the core curriculum was reading, writing, and arithmetic it was not the norm to express creativity. And if you did it was not the norm. Creativity in our modern 21^st century society especially in the world of business, especially in entertainment, culture, and Arts are major areas of creativity. By contrast children and youth of today’s age express creativity intellectually by music, drawing, painting, and building things. They also express creativity physically by expressing an interest in outdoor activities. Such as, skating, biking, playing basketball and football. To Foster creativity in the school environment children are using the computer to express themselves through Microsoft applications, digital videos, Music and Art.  Many people do have learning personalities in which they often express preference for one approach or another. Some people like visual information such as, pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, demonstration; others, auditory input speech or visual symbols of auditory information written words and mathematical notations. Most people prefer to talk things out, to interact with other humans; some, to reflect independently. A majority try to organize information inductively; a minority, deductively. Some students like to learn sequentially, a piece at a time; others, globally, suddenly gaining insights. Some like facts, data, and experimentation sensors; others prefer to work from principles and theories. Sensors like solving problems by standard methods and dislike surprises. intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors show patience with details but hate complications; intuitors become bored with details but welcome complications. Sensors are good at memorizing facts; intuitors are good at grasping new concepts. Sensors are careful but may be slow do not work well with timed tests; intuitors are quick but may be careless. but no matter who we are we all express creativity in many different ways. which makes us all creative and unique individuals.  

Communicating And Collaboration 

Information technologies collaborating make communicating in the 21^st century possible today. Yes! I like I can have my children’s grades sent to my email before report cards and interim are sent home. I also like knowing my sons assignment for homework and progress in school via email his teacher and I communicating. Collaborating Learning environments are far more important in the educator’s role in employing today’s technologies to make material accessible and engaging in other words, encouraging students to create, communicate, and collaborate in ways never before possible. “Knowing how to use technology is a key requirement today. In students outside of school lives students watch TV, and videos and send text messages, use cell phones for communication and email for the internet play video games which requires children to critical think to move from level to level, and play with remote control toys .These are all ways children use technology outside of school starting at a young age. When communication and collaboration says this technology focus, engage, and motivate learning yes! You can see this area is showing for its self, it does hold children’s outer and inner attention I can see this shown with my son. This form of technology requires children active participation. This way children are directly involved in the learning process which also encourages children to work together I feel that this way children can work together and help each other. Children learn many things from each other sometimes they learn more from each other more than from adults sometimes. I think this way we can also get away from tracking with more cooperative learning. Speaking as a parent, I like this type of learning it reminds me of hands on learning. Which education in times past was trying to fade out hand on learning education wanted to push standardized testing and less hands on learning. However, I have realized that education is back where it started from the things they wanted to do without they are now coming back and reinforcing these ideas I think that the 21^st century society has made education change where they have lagged behind.



Resources:

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.