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Reflective thinking about Technology and Children

The whole world is moving to the 21st Century and technology is becoming a part of life cannot be spread from the human.  One of the major impacts is to education who involve educators, students, parents and other stakeholders.  When comes to the role of technology in educational its a controversial topic.  Parents and educators are more concerned with the disadvantage factors rather advantage factors.  Let's see what are the benefit of technologies towards children. Firstly its improved child learning and development.  If children are using the right tools of technology at the right time it will enhance their cognitive and social abilities.  To attract the students in the classroom teachers can use a projector to educate young students in the classroom.  This type of environment will help students to improve their thinking skills and also help to develop crucial skills that are needed in society. Secondly Its help to encourage school willingness and cognitive development.  Stude

Creating and Integrating Blendspace lesson with Google Classroom

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Blend space help to solve a lot of problems created by students such as loss of paper, forgotten assignment and missed learning due to absenteeism. Hi, there is a very first time I learn how to use blend space for my teaching lesson plan. My lecture introduces me and my friend to blend space apps during our technology class.  In the beginning, I find it difficult to adapt to the learning but with the help of my friends I manage to create my own lesson plan for my school.  I will share my learning of blend space step by step. 1/ Create a google account. 2. Go to google search and type Blend space. 3.  Then look for " Tes teach with Blend space it frees 4.  Look for "New Lesson " words which will be on your left. 5. Click into it 6. You will 6 boxes in blue colour written " Enter the lesson title" 7.  You choose your finding in youtube, google search or other just drag and drop your lesson. 8. I will how the boxes look alike. https://www.

ADVANTAGE OF USING POWER POINT ANIMATION AS A DIGITAL TOOLS IN CLASSROOM

Today I am going to talk about the advantage of using powerpoint animation as teaching tools in the classroom.  Powerpoint is a versatile presentation tool that can be used as multiple tools in teaching. Animation character in powerpoint tools can be used as a teaching tool to achieve teaching goals a student can engage in the classroom easily.           Always remember power point animation is easy by using a few pointers and need some practice. Example as digital storytelling, report, instructional gaming. Later I will share you how I use animation tools in powerpoint to create an Elephant story for Moral value Subject. The animation is more effective than static sequence to attract student attention during a lesson  in the class. Screencasting can be done using power point. Please view my powerpoint Animation Story od The Great Elephant.  Slide Transition Animation in PowerPoint: Instruction To apply slide transition animation in PowerPoint , first select the slide(s) to wh

WHY I AM USING PADLET.COM

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                                                                Padlet.com What is Padlet about?.  Padlet is like paper for your screen. Start with an empty page and then put whatever you like on it. Upload a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and watch your padlet come to life. Once others add to it, the page will update in real time. Used by teachers, students, professionals, and individuals of all ages, all around the world, the Padlet app is the easiest way to create and collaborate wherever you are. Padlet supports any file type you can imagine, from Spotify Playlists to Excel Spreadsheets. Upload a link and watch a detailed preview appear. Organize the content in any format you like - whether you prefer a grid of images or a chronological scroll. The Padlet app makes it easy to collaborate in any setting. With views tailored for smaller devices and easy-to-use editor buttons, you can change how your padlet lo

Google Classroom , " Lets join"

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                Welcome to Google Classroom (class code yyjb3x ) Myself first time using google classroom and learning step by step to proceed. I find it very friendly to use.  Google Classroom can work anywhere, anytime, one or any device.  It best in learning management at no cost.  More time for richer feedback and save a lot of time.  Google classroom can tackle administrative task more efficiently to help the teacher to focus more. The teacher is the main person to control the input and output of the google classroom discussion.  There few steps to follow by a new user.  In future, I will in charge my parents to support their children to join Google classroom  1. You need to sign in your computer or mobile device to join the classes.   2.  If you are below age you can use your parent's google account to join the class. 3. There is two way to join the class. the class teacher will send you a class code so you can use the code to at yourself to the part

HI FRIENDS JOIN ME MAKING OF STOP MOTION VIDEO

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Hi Friends My name is Paramasvari Krishnan. Just started learning about digitals tools for my assignment for subject Technology in Education.  it's my first time learning about digital tools that can help during my interaction with students in the classroom... and I have to use stop motion apps which I had to install as I'm using an android phone (sad face). Disclaimer!!!  For my android users, not to worry too much about your phone capability because any android handphone can do the job for you. We start with the first step. 1. On your mobile phone. 2. Look for play store and click. 3. Go to Google Play 4. Type in stop motion apps 5. Look for stop motion studio than click. 6.  Install the stop motion studio apps on your mobile phone. 7. Plan your story, what type of video clip you prefer .                  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJ3C4cZ3EkEDmty5sGP3h8T1ibtKIGuI/                   Click on this link for more info on  Development of learning Envir