This technology can bring strategies into the classroom that caters for diverse learners, it can allow students to work at their own level and speed, as well as allowing them to develop higher order thinking. The activity can go from teachers teaching students information to students being in control of developing and learning the information, or in reference to the SAMR model the activity starts off at in Substitution and develops through to Redefinition.
The technology of audio, images and video allows teachers to create meaningful activities without words that students of the 21st century are engaged with. Images in particular allows students to think beyond what they may first see. The settings of technology allows teachers and students to pick images, audio and video that is related to the content, you can than change the size of images, the volume, length and speed of audio and video and, in most technology gadgets when and who can see the content. Customizing the activity is the main idea of using technology in the classroom, no two teachers activities will be the same and no two students work with technology is will be same.
Technology gadgets that involve images, audio and video are fairly easy to use and to get the hang of. Little experience is needed to use these kinds of technology, but for students of the 21st century this technology is extremely easy!, this also may become an implication of these kinds of activities, due to the fact that students may result in boredom and end up flying through the activity. These activities need to support the creativity and higher order thinking of students. They can support a lot of diverse materials and activities, subjects such as art, drama and media would gain the most of these technologies. Subjects such as math may be more challenging when it comes to creating activities, but when done correctly on the right subject matter it becomes an extremely powerful tool.
Because I'm primality going to be teaching Math, at first thought you would imagine involving technology within the content may be challenging, after some thought I came to the conclusion that we already use images when teaching math, such as diagrams but if we were to use video and audio in the classroom it could become a wonderful tool when teaching math. Especially when it comes to teaching such things like: negative numbers, division, multiplication and much more. This way students are able to clearly see how and why.
When learning about shapes, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction, distance formulas, square roots, negative numbers. Providing images or moving images/ video, can be a useful tool for when students are trying to understand why and why they are getting asked to do.
S - Substitution :
Teacher setting an activity using power point and/ or audio, creating an engaging lesson involving technology.
A - Augmentation :
Teacher setting an activity using power point and students coming up and getting involved in the activity by writing on the board, allows involvement for diverse learners including students with special needs. Allows more student involvement and for teachers to focus more on students.
M - Modification :
Allowing students on computers or ipads ect, and teacher sending them a video, audio or image and teacher going through the activity with them or as a group. Allows students to learn after school hours in a location and time that they wish, supports their needs and interests.
R - Redefinition :
Involving technology and allowing the students to create their own task on the content, using the technology they wish, than sharing it with the teacher and class or a group.
Materials that could be useful when teaching Math:
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhUXNoRpQE
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oYSkG4l_Vw
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