Focus question: How do students use technology for learning visually? It helps a lot for children who are visual learners. By providing them online simulations, real time data displays and analysis, online video clips and streaming video and vodcasts. (Maloy Robert,O'Loughln Ruth,Edwards Sharon,Woolf Beverly, 2011 Pearson Education, Inc, publishing as Allyn and Bacon) It helps the students who are also hands on and that need the visual in order to plug those two together they are able to be apart of the research and being able to see it right in front of them.
For the tech tool: http://visual.merriam-webster.com It was very helpful since I want to be able to go into Language Arts, its nice to be able to use this for kids who are more visual and can connect harder words to images in order to understand it better. They will be able to use this on their own and it will help out with essay for my class and FCAT they will be able to expand their vocabulary.
This chapter summary: For chapter two it was answering the more famous question "How can technology help my student or child wont it just enable them?" People are asked this all the time especailly teachers because parents are concerned that their kid wont learn if they can find it with just one click. I wasn't so sure myself but it helps the students put the learning in their hands, they can research and find the answers on their own. You can create games and have them use competition who can find the answer the quickest or have them create a test for each other. Not only does it help the students but the teachers as well for lesson planning, student record keeping and if they are a online teacher great for that as well.
I see your thinking process in discussing the tough question, "Will technology help or hurt my child?" and even more important to 'think out loud' since I know you have some doubts yourself. Please continue to explore this concept - there's no black & white answer, but varying degrees of argument!
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