Eleanor Yanity's Final Report:
The purpose of this project is to see if student interest
in math and Science is enhanced with the use of technology.
Many students find learning math and science boring, irrelevant,
and difficult. The challenges for me are to motivate students
to want to learn math and to use instructions that are interesting
to them. I know that research shows that children are naturally
drawn to technology such as electronic games because of their
exploratory and interactive nature, graphics, and the possibility
of doing active manipulations, which is difficult to obtain
with regular paper activity. Electronic games also give students
a feeling of control. I use many software programs that can
be shared with the entire class using the multimedia projector
and the large screen.
Through a process of observations and structured interviews,
I assessed the qualityof learning that is happening in my
classroom due to introduction of multimedia projector and
large screen. I used questioning practices to determine students'
motivation.
As evidenced by the student's letters, they all find using
the pro lite and large screen
"fun". They are motivated by the technology, and
eager to complete the tasks that are presented to them by
the computer .
This is on going research, which I will continue, into the
next school year .Due to the late arrival of the screen, I
feel I need longer to assess students' actual learning. I
know I have motivated them to use technology by observing
their eagerness to use the computer and the software that
we had previewed on the large screen.
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