Integrating Technology into Instruction

My personal theory of learning is that students learn through repetition and the Nonlinguistic teaching strategy - I called it, at the beginning of this class, the mind’s eye – this course helped me to put another name to my theory of learning, the nonlinguistic teaching strategy.   As is stated at the beginning of this course my personal theory of how students learn is repetition and, teaching students to use the mind’s eye - once again as stated by (Pavio, 1980), his hypothesis asserting that when we see an image, both the image and a label for that image are stored in memory.  It is my theory, that if a student put’s seeing and hearing together they will have a good memory, hands-on activities, project based learning, and learning through technology which makes the information being taught relevant to the students’ will all help the student to learn the objectives being taught.   This course has reinforced my personal learning theory by introducing me a teaching strategy that supports my learning theory the minds eye - Nonlinguistic Teaching Strategy.  As a result of this course, the immediate adjustments I will make to my instructional practice regarding technology integration are the fact that I will use technology to teach any objective I want the students to learn, I will make sure I give the information along with a picture to incorporate the nonlinguistic teaching strategy in my lessons.  I will include Wiki’s, Podcasts, Blogs, and Voice Threads technology tools to teach my objectives – because the students love to use technology I will use it to my advantage and let them use these technology tools to learn what I am teaching. Another immediate adjustment I will make to my instructional practice is to use the instructional strategy of cooperative learning. The two long-term goal changes I would like to make to my instructional practice regarding technology integration are to use the Podcast to teach various objectives in my class, and to use the Voice Thread to teach various objectives in my class.  I have already prepared lessons that include the Voice Thread, the Wiki, the Podcast, and the Blog to help provide my students with some of the twenty-first century skills.

Reference

Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2011). Program one: Understanding the brain [Video

           webcast]. Bridging learning theory, instruction and technology. Retrieved from

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