Journal 5

Improving Students Learning
By Catherine Tannahill and Leslie Ricklin

Expanding the boundaries for students is very important for teachers to hold up to. Technology has certainly proven to be a huge tool to helping students further their abilities. In the article, Improving Students Learning, it shows how students using technology for their research can benefit the students in a much fuller way. The articles goes over four different steps of research and then goes into the details how technology helps improve each step for our students. Wikis and blogs were also mentioned as a way of communication in group work along with email. It easier for students that have different schedules to be able to have more ways of communication, without being right next to each other. The article also went into how students usually use PowerPoint as a way of presentation.

Questions/Answers:

Q: How do we make sure that students do not over use the PowerPoint?

A: Everyone in one time or another has over used a PowerPoint. As teachers we can try to train our students in using PowerPoint by demonstrating how to present with PowerPoint.

Q: How do we get our students to put things in their words without using others?

A: I figured teachers can do exercise that can lead up to the steps of summarizing with out using other peoples words from the internet. Research is definitely going in the right direction to help our students but it is necessary to train our students how to do it properly.