Jamie, as well as the rest of us, feel that our negative experience in learning with technology is trying to figure out all of these blogs, wikis, and other accounts for this class. We are often confused about whether or not we are posting things correctly, and this can be stressful when it has to do with our grades. We agree that many of these things can be useful, however, we wish that we had more practice using them.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Group 2- Positive and Negative Experiences with Technology
Caitlin explained that in high school she used to rent movie versions of books in order to better comprehend the plots. Some may think this is taking the easy way out, but after reading the book, and then watching the movie afterwards, she realized that technology truly helped her in English.
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I can relate to the positive experience in this post, but wonder how teachers would feel about it. I was assigned to read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in eleventh grade and understood the text better than many of my classmates because I had just seen a theatrical production of it. However, many movie adaptations of books are not entirely accurate. As a teacher, I would worry that my students would confuse details in the movie with those in the book. This may cause problems with assignments and the student's understanding. As the group mentioned, I would also worry that my students were not in fact reading the book, but instead just watching the film adaptation.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the negative experience goes, I can relate to both the students' and the professor's viewpoints. Personally, I don't have problems with the online accounts involved in this class. I can see how the sites may be a bit confusing at first, but we will need to learn how to use the internet for the rest of our lives. This class is only asking us to do so sooner rather than later. From the professor's point of view, I may explain the importance and relevance of these sites again, and I might explain how to use Delicious in class. However, I agree with the assignments and standards Professor Smith has set for us. They will become great aids during our teaching years.
After reading Caitlin's positive experience I found that I too had the same experience with English in high school. One of my teachers allowed the class to read the novels assigned as well as veiw the correlating movie in class. For a teachers perspective this is very beneficial because she noticed that all students do not learn the same ways. Providing this type of diffentiation to your students will only benefit them. Also, since some teachers may find viewing movies as less beneficial there are ways to argue around that. Sometimes movies change their structures or dramatize different aspects, this is when the teacher would step in to point out the flaws in the movie and reinforce the differences from the book to the movie.
ReplyDeleteI can directly relate to Caitlin's positive experience with technology. When I was in middle and high school I was in gifted and talented engilsh and I found it very difficult to comprehend the books we were expected to read. I never thought of watching the video in order to help me understand the text. I was afraid that the video would be too different from the book and I would not have gotten the same information my other classmates got from reading the text. By reading Caitlin's story, and seeing she had a positive experience, it wish I would have watched some of the movies, because it may have helped my learning. Sometimes, the teachers would allow us to watch the movie after we completed the book and after the test on the book. However, by that point it was too late for me to understand what the author was trying to say.
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