Week 3: Learning Strategies

This weeks lesson combined how to do the skills with how it can benefit students. It made me think about technology in the classroom more then just a means to save time or paper but rather enhance students learning and experience from a multimodal perspective .

We have all had a professor or teacher that would put up a slide show with dense text straight out of the text book and read off of the slides. This is not an effective use of technology and does not engage leaners in an effective way. We as teachers hope students will remember what we are teaching. Understanding information processing is helpful because it allows us to understand how the brain memorizes information most effectively. But even more helpful is brainstorming ways that tech in the classroom can enhance the retention of information. It is also important to find the balance between finding ways to use tech to present information in a efficient way and avoid phenomenon like the split attention principle.