Teaching can be enhanced with New Technology, But how?

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The Department of Educations states that our teachers could be enhanced with new technology. just by using digital content in every day classes, this program is being spread nation wide because it has been researched and has been proven to help teachers improve the learning time with there students. Arne Duncan said “we must take advantage of this historic opportunity to use American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to bring broadband access and online learning to more communities.”

The test showed that face-to-face instruction had a lager advantage relative to purely face to face instructions or instruction conducted wholly online. It also showed that online was more effective in improving a students achievement than a purely face to face. As I read that I thought this could really impact me as a student. Because I know how our school is trying to get more into technology for improving our achievement, for example for my English class we use triple E laptops to do all our personal learning net works, and our Google readers have all are information on them.
Also it would impact me by being able to get missed notes or homework and be able as well to print them off and the teachers would be able to show us how to do that so we don’t have an excuse for not turning in our home work. So this sort article just made me think how much my high school will improve with my teachers using digital uses for better learning towards students.

Education/09/17/09 Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools

In Asheville, N.C. in a extremely small trailer her parents rented over the summer, 9-year old Charity Crowell picked out clothes for the first day of school. And she promised to work as hard as she could to get the C’s she had last spring up. But this all changed for her when her parents lost there jobs, house, and car now they are migrating through friends homes and motels just so she has some wear she could actually do home work and studies. This effects me as a reader because this girl never actually has a home to call home she made me fell how hard it would be to just how hard it truly must have been to do home work. I know for a fact that I would have an extremely hard time because instead of studying I would be worried on when we have to move again or what if we had no were else to go. I think my grades would fall at an extremely high rate if I was in her position. And in the article Charity said “it was extremely hard to go to sleep because I could always hear us moving place to place then the next day I nodded off in class some times”. This Article made me think how many others students might be going through this or some thing like it I probley have some one I know that has or had this going on while they were younger. So this really touched me as a reader it showed how much she had gone through just to get to school and and have a place to stay just like the other 679,000 homeless students.

world news 09/17/09

African Union Base in Somalia Is Hit The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
Thursday in Somalia, some Somali insurgents did a suicide attack against the top Somali and African Union officials during a meeting to plan a major offensive in Mogadishu.

The Somali insurgents drove two highly explosives trucks deep into the base witch were marked on the side U.N., the base was near the airport also next to the base there was an American logistics office company. According to the article the Somali insurgents killed the seconded in commander of the African Union peacekeeping force and wounded several other commanders. The Somali insurgents were well informed of the base they had a map that showed every thing. At this web site I discovered how much this world hasn’t become peace full at all some were in the world there’s a war like the united states sending troops to Irag and Afghanistan.

As I was reading this article I realized that the Terri ousts are getting really good, and I was just wondering how could they get all this information? Also if this was going on in the United States my parent’s probley not allow me to go to school unless the security was extremely well organized, I am not saying that it’s safe right now because we already had tier oust attack our schools. I am just stating if it was every day like in Africa were some of those villages are being in the worst possible places as they have several Terri oust groups out there that will kill all of them if they wanted to.

This article made me angry and not so happy with our governments around the world they suppose to have order and be able to stop the groups of Terri oust but sending more troops like for this they have over 5,000 Somalia troops now protecting the transitional government in the mean time they could have them try and stop the groups so there’s some peace. This article makes me wonder how the children in Somalia would probley die just to be were I am today, and that hits me as a learner in so many ways it kills me that we cant help them as much as we should.

artical and video

During the artical and video it showed how much tecnolagey has inproved in over a amount of time. For example the video showed how our life is mostly using the computer and its resorse. Also i think that these two are able to tie in together because there about the same thing to me. Even though they have two diffrent points of veiw. On how we use the computer for most of every thing we do. The video also says that we use tecnologey more than our own parents. So the artical and video showes how much we use the internet and other resouces on the computer so by the time we are the age of our parents we would of used it twice as much as they ever did.