The game I decided to play with is on the site Brain Pop. I played a game called Branches of the Government. The game is fun to play because it tests the skills one has about their knowledge about the three branches of the US Government. This is a good game to play because it has a way that wants someone to learn about the government and what aspects each one takes care of. Overall it is a good educational tool that can get students in the US Government that could help them understand certain topics that are happening in the present and in the past.
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I like the technology of the smart table that allows a variety of students that have need a different way to learn with a device that can cater to them. Having the smart table be able to have different functions programmed into it that can have a lot of different teaching methods that can help round out a students learning. The idea of being able to see what actions with the touch tracker is a very good thing so you can see what tools and how into the student is on the topic or lesson they are doing. I believe if I had this kind of table I would like to make it to work with teaching students about 3D modeling, because you can almost sculpt something in a virtual environment by using the technologies of this table. It can also be used as a cognitive exercise to test reflexes and other problem solving skills.
In this chapter the author talked a lot about schema. With schema my understanding that I take away form this chapter is that it is a set response to a particular situation. The way that one can develop this schema is brought to light in one's mind is from experience. Through past experiences people learn way to do something that just become natural after a certain amount of time of it happening. So schema is something that can be brought about from learning in the classroom. The way that schema helps us perceive intelligence is kind of strange in a sense, people naturally think that a person is not smart because they don't know how to do a certain task and vice versa, we see people as smart if they know how to do and know certain things. the problem with this is when we see the so called dumb person, with schema in mind, those people more than likely don't have those experiences yet. And the smart people have those past experiences to help them. So schema is both good and bad, and its use of judging intelligence should not be used in the scheme of things.
After reading the chapter "Everything Worth Knowing," I got a good understanding about the importance of updating teaching. My first impressions is that the author shows the idea of how the use of teaching hasn't changed for quite a long time, and with this in my mind I saw how the author wanted to express why this needs to change. The way that the author does it, was a creative manner that engaged the reader to continue and take the information into thought. I also really like the part about how teachers needs to figure out methods that engage all types of learners in their classrooms. This is one of the overall messages I found spread throughout the chapter. Overall the information had good key insights and will most likely stay in my mind for a decent time.
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