Blog Post 4
I decided to chart my use of digital technologies for a week. I am constantly on my iPad, iPhone, and computer. I spend at least 4 hours per day texting, surfing the web and using social media. This time spent doesn't include my use of them for school and work. I also find it a lot more convenient renting text on my iPad then buying a hard copy. Digital technologies are used much more by students than teachers. I plan on incorporating the iPad into my classrooms. I feel like this will be a good way to intrinsically motivate students to learn. Also you can use interactive text which will cater to the many different learning styles students have. To support the students that do not know how to use them I teach an introductory course and have how to tutorials available on the class website.
Things I like to do in my spare time.
hanging out with my kids
I definitely agree with you Justin that by using technology we can intrinsically motivate the students. It's getting harder and harder to motivate them now, and we should use anything we can to get their attention. If we as teachers can reach students through technology I'm all for doing anything we can to get them to learn and be good students.
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