Lexie Turner

Research Technologies 

Technology is rapidly growing from day to day. One day we might buy the new iPhone or iPad and the next day the iPhone or iPad we have is fashionably out of date. School children are incredibly used to technology. At home they are playing on their new iPad, Xbox or MacBook. So it seems quite normal to use these types of modern technology to learn at school as well.

Mathematics in schools is generally an unpopular subject for some children. However in contemporary society if technology is involved it all seems a little bit more exciting. If children can play maths games on a computer generally they are going to want to do maths more often in that way rather than answering questions on a piece of  white paper. If students can take tests on the computer which means being involved with technology and receiving immediate results rather than waiting a week for their teacher to mark them, they are going to want to do that too. Through the use of technology in the classroom students have the chance to prosper through something that is modern and mainstream.

This assignment required us to research resources and write a short 1-2 page report on how these particular resources cover how the use of technology improves a particular classroom skill. The skill I chose was mathematics skills, because I never found maths fun and appealing when I was at school, so I wanted to research in what ways I could make learning maths fun through the use of technology.

Check out the useful resources below if you would like to see what and how technology is used in modern day society to improve maths skills in the classroom.

References
- Alabama State University, (2007).[image] Retrieved 20/05/2012 from: http://coe.alasu.edu/ncate/images/computerinclassroom.jpg
- Canada.com, (2011).  [image] Retrieved 20/05/2012 from: http://www.calgaryherald.com/4934050.bin?size=620x400s

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