One major thing that I learned from watching the videos is about having the students use technology in the classroom is that it keeps students actively involved. For example, in the first video, the teacher had been teaching her class about spiders. She had the children go outside and use cameras to take pictures of spiders. I thought that this was a very appropriate piece of technology to use, because the students were able to get up and moving and see spiders in real life. This way, the students had the opportunity to stay excited and interested in learning about spiders. It also took the children into the real world, where spiders naturally live.
In the second video, the teacher read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? to the children to demonstrate patterns. Then she had them all help make their own similar book, only the subject being travel, to demonstrate their understanding of patterns in books. I thought that this was also a great tool to help the children stay active and involved in the lesson.
Overall, I learned from these videos that technology can be used in a variety of age-appropriate ways to keep the students actively involved and excited to learn about the subject being taught. Technology can help the students learn more when it is used in an age-appropriate way, by getting the children up and moving, keeping their minds focused on the lesson and keeping them excited about what is being taught.
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