Jason's World: Week 2 Group 4 Current Event

Greetings fellow classmates, we are group 4 and our mascot is the Buddha. The Buddha represents our quest for truth, compassion and wisdom. We would like to pass on our findings to help the community, the teachers and the students. Together we can influence humanity to prosper and bring about compassion and peace to the world.

Current Event Topic: Identify an online source for expanding your technology literacy.

Here is one of the tools I found interesting on the site, it is called "Scratch" where students learn to program using command scripts. It is like each lego block contains command codes to do an action and you arrange it to make things move, keep score, draw pictures, play music, and make games.

The website we would like to share is from the EdTechTeachers website. Technology can help engage and allow students to take control of their own learning. Most importantly, social application tools can teach students to work together and to share their work with classmates or around the world. This site provides "technology tools for teachers" by organizing web tools for certain learning goals, such as "I want to connect my students to other students around the world" or "I want to create tests, quizzes, and games online". In addition, a list of website tools are listed with example works, a rating of usefulness and a easy-of-use rating (easy-medium-high). Using technology to facilitate learning can help a teacher reach out to students of this generation who are already familiar with some aspects of technology and also to become technology creators rather then just users of technology.

Group Mascot: BUDDHA
Click the Buddha's Belly to go to website article!