Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Classroom Tech

#1


My relationship with technology starts off in my younger days with my mother buying me a Nintendo Entertainment System or NES for short along with the one game that comes with the system, “Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.”  Videogames were a great way to past the time.

In school, teachers used computer games to teach us to read, to write and to learn mathematics along with instructional videos.     

As I grew, so did my love for entertainment technology with The PlayStation Gaming Console, The PlayStation 2.  Later, my family purchased our first computer.  I can remember my mother having me set the entire system up along with internet and a security system. 

In high school, I found love for Digital Media, television to be precise.  The lights, the cameras, the editing systems.  I loved it.  TV is where my heart lies and is why I am here at Towson pursuing a degree in Electronic Media and Film. 

 


#2


In education, technology is quite possibly the best tool to learn from.  I was a visual learner, the computer games the school provided me with allowed me learn in fun entertaining ways.  They informed me if an answer was right or wrong on the spot and taught me why an answer was right or wrong.  Also, not all students are hands-on learners, it’s always best to have different ways to teach students.  I mean we’re all different. 

My class had 33 students and one teacher.  With computer technology, the teacher did not need to have one-on-one time with each student during those computer lab times because the student already had help for the cpu.  My classmates that were experiencing problems could then have the teacher give them the personal help they needed.  It was a great way to teach such a large group of students.  

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