Week 2: Purpose/Problem Statements
EDUC-6653I-2 Introduction to Educational Research
Instructor: Kathryn Arnold
While thinking of the issues that arise in my classroom and which ones would be of most interest the one I kept coming back to was the issue of technology use in my classroom and how it effects my students. From experience, I know that students almost always react well to lessons that include technology, but I have never compared grades to those of classes who didn't have the use of technology. Students use computers constantly at home and I believe that in order to catch their interest, we need to give them something to relate to. Studying the government and culture of Ancient Egypt is not always relateable, so why not teach it through technology, which is? I look forward to diving deeper into this topic, even when this class is over, to explore all I can offer my students. In doing this, I would like to share my results with my peers and perhaps change the way we look at teaching!
My problem statement is as follows:
I plan to determine how map skills lessons taught with technology such as power point and interactive map sites, such as maps101, will effect students assessment scores differently then those those taught through basic teaching including lectures and book work.
Who: 7th grade SS students
What: use technology such as power points and map websites
Why: have higher scores on end of the unit projects and tests
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Hi Arielle,
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of 3rd Social Studies curriculumn I teach a lot about maps and mapping skills. I think by incorporating interactive map sites and power points you will be address a number of different learning styles.
I was wondering how you were going to assess your students mapping skills to asure that the technology was increasing the score and not basic teaching?
I'm not sure if you have ever gone to this web site but it does have some awesome interactive power points. http://www.pppst.com/
Good Luck
Arielle, I think that your topic is one deserving of research. I have one concern and that is in your statement you want to see improvement in assessment scores. While I understand that we are all under pressure to make improvement on state tests, should we not be more concerned with the improvement of long term learning?
ReplyDeleteArielle,
ReplyDeleteI think your topic is a great one to research, it sounds very interesting and I agree that students react well to technology being used in the classroom. I had my students create a wiki page for their Global Culture class last semester, and it was great, they responded way beyond my expectations.
One of the biggest questions I have with my problem, and with many I have seen so far is the long term results that we'll be able to get. I know that this is only meant for us to go as far as Literature Review, but I think all of these problems warrant further investigation to get the results we're looking for and be able to reach a proper conclusion, do you agree?