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One of the technologies introduced in the Sports Psych lab that I found would be beneficial in schools is the eye tracking device. The device would help both students and teachers. Teachers could use it to monitor where they are looking around the classroom, how long they are looking at a certain spot, and how frequently they are looking at certain areas. This would benefit teachers by improving their social interactions with the students and improving their attentiveness to the entire class. It could be used on students to track the same exact things like location, frequency, and duration on an area. This would benefit them because teachers would get the feedback to change their teaching strategy to help the student have a better learning quality.

PowerPoint is a great resource to enhance student learning through organized visuals. The Bloom's Taxonomy organizes objectives clearly for students to learn better. Powerpoint will be used to guide the remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create process of the Bloom taxonomy in a lesson about the novel The Catcher in the Rye. For "remember", I would begin with a slide that has the students list the characters out loud and then they would appear on the slide. Then for "understand" I would be to have the students describe the characters. A slide for "apply" would be that they have to predict how a character would react in several situations listed using the information they have about the character. For "analyze", I would have several of the themes that are found throughout the book and have students analyze the meaning of them. An "evaluate" slide in Powerpoint would include having the students justify why a character is the way he or she is. And for "create" I would have students create and design a visual that shows their evaluation of each character.

EdTech Focus on K-12 is a website that provides articles about technology and education issues. It has so many topics ranging from how and what educational technology works in the classroom to managing technology use. The website also offers webinars for teachers to optimize technology use and accommodate to the newest educational technology. It gives tips and tricks on managing, networking, and classroom use as well as reviews on different technology. The website is constantly updating with new articles about new educational technology that can be integrated in the classroom

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/