Student Tech Products Reflection

Students Tech Products Reflection

What are your overall thoughts on this course? 

Everyday is a learning experience whether we are inside or outside our classroom. Ed Tech Cohort 12 gave me another opportunity to review and learn new apps that the teachers and students need to learn more about technology. We are lucky in our CNMI District that we have good Internet speed service in our classroom and  the speed is going up to more than 100 mbps download in my classroom. That helps my students to use the devices at the same time  without any issue. Internet speed is a big factor in using technology inside our classroom especially when we are using additional apps, images, graphics,and movies so that students may be more engaged and increase their learning capabilities in reading, math and writing including the other content subjects. At this cohort, I am always sharing the information to my students  that I have learned from our class and will continue to use it to improve the students in digital learning  and help them to  become critical thinkers and successful students of CNMI.

What were some student tech products you found useful in your profession?

Canva, WordClouds, Flipgrid, Powtoon, and Interactive Whiteboards are very useful in our classroom, and the students liked it.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using certain student tech products/applications in your profession?

In WordClouds activities, my students were more engaged in doing the activities and doing the Prezi program.

Advantages:

1. Increase interaction among the students

2. Improve students engagement

3. Active participation of students by using digital devices

4. Improves collaboration

5. Prepares children for the future

Disadvantages:

1. Excessive Screen time if the students are interested on the program

2. Distractions of some tech products

3. Less human interaction