Technology in Education

a) A password-protected web site starts with an initial screen that asks you to fill in your username and password.

b) Two IT features that a computer user should have in order to access this site is any kind of Internet Browser and an Internet Connection.

c) The new website could improve student learning because students wont loose their studying materials, also, students usually spend most of their time on the computer and would study more frequently, because sometimes the hardest part of studying is starting. If all the information is given to the students online they will be sure they aren't missing any information.

d) The teachers will require IT skills to apply this way of teaching, and it will be hard for some. Teachers will have to spend more time in the computer, but it will be an easier way of teaching. Teachers with poor IT skills will not be able to upload information or to even understand this way of teaching. This will be a challenge to those teachers because they will have to compete to those who have a good IT skill, this could put their jobs in risk.

Games for the Classroom

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-8/compound-events-find-the-number-of-outcomes

The game can be applied on mathematics to study probability to find the number of outcomes.

This game gives many different examples of probability and checks the answer, if it is correct it will say it is correct, and if it is wrong it gives the option to read an explanation of how it is done. I think it should be applied because it is a good practice, and if the student gets it wrong he learns how to do it.

The teacher will assess this game because there are two options after solving a problem, one that is “submit”, that it says if the answer was correct or not, and if not it offers an explanation, or another option that is “submit and finish”, that shows which skill was practiced, the time spent doing all the exercises, and how many out of how many problems the student got correct. That is how the teacher can assess the student, by checking his “submit and finish” option.