A good science teacher can challenge students and create an atmosphere conducive for learning, where students have a desire to engage in activities and laboratory experiments, explore their curiosity, and learn through collaboration, persistence and pursue new challenges.
Today’s youth needs a myriad amount of stimuli in order to keep their attention in this fast paced world. Technology is a part of their being, it is how they function in everyday life, and to leave that aspect out is completely foreign to them. Teenagers spend more hours’ texting and with multimedia (Facebook, snapshot, and searching the web) then they do face to face with other teenagers or adults (Generation, 2010). Furthermore, studies have shown that the more stimulation a child gets around the age of four, the more developed the parts of their brains with regards to language and cognition will be decades ahead (Avants et al., 2012). Brain scans of …show more content…
With more productivity applications including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers and their own creativity applications such as iMovie and Garage band, the iPad allows for more personalized learning experiences (Newman, 2013). Students can also gain use of the calculator pro, Google Earth, and drop box features with the iPad, which allows for the movement, deleting, downloading and uploading of files, something that Windows does not allow currently (Newman, 2013).
Educational applications designed for interactive learning are being innovated and produced at significant rates. Even though most teenagers have cell phones and computers, having an iPad issued to every student in a school would allow for equal opportunities for an in depth learning experience. Through this technology and with access to WiFi signals, students would have access to libraries throughout the
Today’s youth needs a myriad amount of stimuli in order to keep their attention in this fast paced world. Technology is a part of their being, it is how they function in everyday life, and to leave that aspect out is completely foreign to them. Teenagers spend more hours’ texting and with multimedia (Facebook, snapshot, and searching the web) then they do face to face with other teenagers or adults (Generation, 2010). Furthermore, studies have shown that the more stimulation a child gets around the age of four, the more developed the parts of their brains with regards to language and cognition will be decades ahead (Avants et al., 2012). Brain scans of …show more content…
With more productivity applications including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers and their own creativity applications such as iMovie and Garage band, the iPad allows for more personalized learning experiences (Newman, 2013). Students can also gain use of the calculator pro, Google Earth, and drop box features with the iPad, which allows for the movement, deleting, downloading and uploading of files, something that Windows does not allow currently (Newman, 2013).
Educational applications designed for interactive learning are being innovated and produced at significant rates. Even though most teenagers have cell phones and computers, having an iPad issued to every student in a school would allow for equal opportunities for an in depth learning experience. Through this technology and with access to WiFi signals, students would have access to libraries throughout the