Technology in the Classroom

What Is It? Class Dojo is a communication app where teachers can share reports of their students to the parents. Reports of student's performance in class. Teachers, students and parents all have access to ClassDojo to see daily reports of progress and feedback. Although ClassDojo's main purpose is a behavior management tool. It aims to help the hard-to-reach students. Example of Point System Positive: Helping others, on task, participating, perseverance, teamwork, working hard. Needs Work: disrespect, no homework, off task, talking out of turn, unprepared. What is the Student's Job? Each student gets their own profile, where they can create an avatar that represents them. The teacher then runs the class through a tablet or computer. Giving positive or negative points (dojos) through out the day or lesson. And the device makes a notification noise letting the students know that the teacher is giving points. So the student's job is act accordingly a

In this blog post I will be reviewing and advertisement of a software (one of many) that teachers can use to teach and help students learn. This advertisement speaks intriguingly about how students are natural learners. But we often find our students in environment where learning does not happen naturally, but more forcefully.  She then questions the viewers, how are we using technology to develop creativity in the minds of our students? We need to embrace  natural learning. Students learn better when they are connect, playing and collaborating with their peers. Kids help other kids, who help them, learn. They go on to explain how we should transform devices into powerful engagement tools. So teachers will first, create a lesson plan and then integrate technology into that lesson in a way that will intrigue them and influence learning. Technology also lets students learn together. When students are able to learn, practice and understand as well as ask questions arou