Teaching+With+Technology+-+Reflection+Week+3

One of the items that I took away from this week were the two digital youth videos about Luis and Cameron. There were three things that I took away from both videos. The first was that like Math, technology has no language barrier and thus it can be an effective tool in teaching our ESL and LEP students. It offers these students an equal footing with other students and allows them to be able to express themselves in ways that language will not. The second thing that I took away from these videos was how will students were to learn and teach others. In Luis' and Cameron's videos, we saw how willing they were to acquire new knowledge outside that classroom and then take what they have learned to incorporate them inside the classroom. Lastly we saw how willing the teachers were in allowing their students to take the lead in areas that they had limited knowledge in. In doing so they allowed the students to develop their leadership skills and the teachers themselves were able to learn important skills that they can use with their next set of students. In Cameron's video we saw how excited he was to show his teacher how to do things and it urged him to seek out new information on his own that he could share. It not only benefited Cameron and his teacher but they were able to form a instructional partnership that benefited his classmates as well such as in the integer lesson.