Blog Post 8

  Of all the technologies seen in the lab tour, I think that the text-to-speech software would be some of the most useful in a school. There are many students who have learning or physical disabilities that prevent them from being able to read and comprehend words on a computer screen, so this type of software would be very helpful in a wide variety of circumstances.
   PowerPoint can be used to help students throughout the entirety of Bloom's Taxonomy. Students can create PowerPoint presentations to create a project and evaluate what materials to include in their project. Students can then analyze the information to deem what is most appropriate to include in their presentation, and they can apply this knowledge by thinking of practical, real-life applications for the information that they are reading and presenting. Finally, understanding and remembering the information will be a key component of using PowerPoint because students who present a lesson will need to understand and remember the information in order to effectively help their peers understand and remember the information.
   

 Using sources such as scholarly journals that research trends in technology would be useful for teachers to stay up-to-date on technologies. These journals do comprehensive research of what technologies will be trending in the future, so teachers and schools know where to best invest their time and resources on the most effective, long-lasting technologies.