Blog Post #13

This week I learned about different ways to use technology in a classroom to help motivate students to learn and to be involved.

1.  In Class Dojo - A short Film the students in Mrs. Giuliani's 5th grade class made an excellent dramatization. They began by showing their classroom before using Class Dojo and it seemed that the students were disruptive and bored and unmotivated. After using the positive and negative points system for every student  it helped the students to be motivated to strive to become helpful and motivated students.

2.  Grodek's Dojo Tutorial helps teachers understand how to set up a Classroom Dojo.  He explains how to create an avatar for every student. A great advantage that the program offers is the feature to create your own positive or negative features. Next he shows how the program can help with attendance as students can double tap their avatar to indicate that they are present that day. At the end of the day, each student and even their parents can pull up their chart and see their percentage pie chart which shows where the positive and negative points are being placed. It's awesome because parents can keep track of their child's behavior.

3.  The news video Technology to Motivate Students brings viewers inside of Ms. Meyer's classroom where the students are reading Bridge to Terabitha. The students are reading this book using many different tools, some are using traditional books, ipads, ipod touches, kindles and different e-readers. The students love using the electronic tools to read because children love being apart of the technological age.

4.  In Louise Morgans presentation, Motivating Your Students to Write Through Blogging she explains why blogging can be so beneficial to a students development in writing. Next she shares resources that a teacher can use to set up a class blog for their classroom. An essential aspect of successful student blogging is having concrete rules that the students abide by while creating their post and while commenting on peers posts as well.


In brief we can motivate students with technology by using tools like,

•  Class Dojo
• motivate students to choose good behavior over bad behaviors.
• motivate classroom participation.

• Ipads, Ipods, kindles
• motivate children to read
• help students have easy access to defining a word in the text
• give students the option of writing notes directly in the text they are reading.

• Student Blogs
• encourage students to write
• get students involved in a global community
• teach students how to leave proper feedback