Motivating Students to Learn Using Technology

Week 5: Critical Thinking and Technology

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As teachers we have to make our students feel interrested, intrigated and fascinated in our classes topic; we have to make them feel interrested on the classes, make them look for more and more information about it, asking themselves questions about the topics, not just dictate the content to them, but also makes them understand, analyze, synthesize, evaluate evidence. As teachers we must teach them the logics of our disciplinesand not just dictate information to them.

We have to take in consideration that technology, specially computers, can be an useful tool for teachers to develop the classes, and engage our students in the classes. As the article suggest, and as we know, there are different kind of learners, and technology give us the opportunity to look for different methods to teach to each one, and get the best results in their minds. Computers give us the chance to create and look for materials that que can apply to each kind of learners, depending on their best leaning area.

As a teacher I would like to engage my students on the classes topics using technology, computers in this case, involving them with presentations, keeping their attentions with images. I would apply visual representations of auditory information, to make items appear while the name of an object or something like that is appearing on a powerpoint presentation just for them to clarify and connect the meaning. As teachers we have to keep in mind that technologys are not just to help students to understand better the topics, or just for them to practice, it also help us to look for different ways to teach and achieve the purpose of our classes.