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Content Area Research Project 1. One concern about technology when teaching math is the fact that many math teachers of today are still traditional teacher and they are not open to learning new technologies. For technology to be effective in a math class room there must be a strategy to how and when the technology is used if it is going to be successful. [] 2. There are many sites online that provides entire detailed answers online. This prevents students from truly learning the concepts. I have known many students that have posted their homework questions online to sites such as Yahoo! Answers so that they did not have to do the work. Professionals do the work for them and they simply copy down what someone said and turn it in. 3. Another concern that I have about technology in the classroom is that they could be distractions for students. “The Center for Disease Control suggests that greater awareness and stepped-up screening efforts explain the increase in ADHD statistics. [1] However, many believe that the excessive use of electronic toys contributes to the increase in ADHD. [|**Attention spans**] are decreasing with too much technology. Children that spend excessive time playing on their computers, game boys, or other electronic games, are more likely to have attention problems in school. When this is added to food dyes and [|**sugars**], students find it difficult to focus even more.” Even when I was still a student new technology in the classroom posed as a distraction. When we first got graphing calculators at ours school many students used them as a new way to pass notes back and fourth with out the teacher being able to catch them. Read more at Suite101: [|**ADHD is on the Rise**] [|**http://www.suite101.com/content/adhd-is-on-the-rise-a313334#ixzz1E45ttZvN**] 1. Many people find it helpful to have online resources that allow them more insight that what the textbook can give them. There are many sites online that provide methods and theories for doing math. There are also many sites that provide worksheets and practice problems, which are primarily how mathematics is learned, through practice. 2. Technology in a classroom can make classroom interaction easier. Using things like a SMARTboard in the classroom would encourage participation because the student would be allowed to use the technology. In a classroom I observed students loved using the SMARTboard. The teacher would allow them to come up and work some problems during the lesson and if they finished their homework and checked it with others they were sometimes allowed to go up and do little artwork on it. She rarely had a problem with the class not participating in discussion. 3. Having an online website such as a wiki where you can post videos and podcasts and homework assignments and the lessons and notes allows students who miss class to have access to that information. They are not having to wait until the next day of school to get caught up on homework and there is no excuse for a student to not have homework turned in on time if you keep on top of the webpage with due dates and homework assignments. 1. [] is a site made for students. There are lessons, games, puzzles and much more on this site that a student could use to grasp certain concepts in math or that teacher could use as a reference for games that might be interesting to try in class. 2. [] is a website for teachers. It provides a large number of lesson plans that teachers can use as a model, idea, or foundation for a lesson plan. There are lesson plans for a number of subjects which can come in very handy for teachers. 3. [] is the website of a teacher that has been created to help teachers with lesson plans and ideas that they could use in the classroom. There are a number of links on this page that can prove to be helpful for both students and teachers. There are links to different classroom activities and games that teachers can use as a review or just for fun. 4. [] [] These are websites that I found some information on that I used in this paper.
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