Technology that facilitates teaching strategies specific to the discipline Word Processors produce memos, letters, homework assignments, and other textual information. Spreadsheets produce charts and graphs of related items like students and students scores, months and monthly budgets, sales by region and names of regions. Databases store, sort, and retrieve collections of information. The internet and student web pages allow for quick editing, multidimensional project designs, peer review, quick access to information. These and many more developing technologies facilitate improved learning in the classroom.
Productivity becomes better organized, and time is budgeted more easily.
Using your curriculum design from tutorial 10.3, create several homework assignments using the applications above and have the students use the same applications to complete the assignments. For example, Provide them with a word document about the homework assignment - and have them turn in a word document about their plans for their project. Use a spreadsheet to graph their names and project target dates - Have them open this spreadhseet and enter the information into it. Create a database of student names, project names, target dates, project summary information, and media used in the student project - show the students this database and how it is used to sort and track information. Let the students create a database for the class where every record is their project that includes their project media.