Engagement+Audio+and+Video

AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDINGS

This fall, I was able to spend an evening discussing student engagement and technology with another classmate. She had good insights and some great examples of how teachers in her school are using technology to motivate and engage students in their learning. Here is a recording of that conversation. The original conversation that I edited in Audacity was 29 MB (too big for the wiki), so I converted it to an MP3 using Xilisoft.

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Then, I pooled together research from Manitoba Education and Training and peer-reviewed journal articles to discuss why I feel that it is important to engage students and why technology is a good way to engage students. I uploaded the video to Youtube and them embedded the file here. The more reading/research that I do, the better a case I have for using technology to engage students, but it must be used as a TOOL, not as a GIMMICK.

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