Week 3 Education and technology

           In social studies technology can be used in multiple ways to bring information to the students and to help bring history to life for the students. Blogs can be used for students to read instead of listening to a lecture. Students can watch videos and easily listen to music of the era that the students are studying. Using technology students can easily conduct their own research online. In this blog I will discuss how this type of technology can help the students learn more about the aspects of WWII.

          Teachers can write blogs so that students can read about the information they also get in class. The blogs could include typed works from the teacher as well as websites and videos for the students to watch while they read. As long as the students have access to technology they can read the blog in class or on their own time.This helps when students miss a day at school they can simply check the teachers blog and get the information they missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objoad6rG6U  Videos like this Crash Course video can help students understand the main points of events that happened in history and are fun to watch.

          In social studies with the assistance of technology students can watch videos about the era that they are learning about. These videos can either talk about the content in a different way or attempt to show an accurate portrayal of what the event was like at the time. Videos such as Crash Course are built for students to watch and get the basic information that is needed to understand an event and why it happened. Other videos such as Band of Brothers can be used to show accurate portrayals of what an event in history was actually like. Both videos can help students understand more about the part of history that they are learning about. Music is another way that videos can be used in classrooms. Teachers can find music from the era to help students better understand the social aspects of the time. This is especially true during the Vietnam war era but is also true with every era of history. 

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=O7umIJj8UBo&list=PLeulUC74_O8TfKoX2muaphFeCGZ3ms7qe&index=13   Videos such as this can help students think about when the event was taking place and what the people thought about the political events taking place.

          Students can use technology to research topics on the content that they are learning. Before technology students would need to conduct research in a library or using encyclopedias. While libraries are still a great way to get information about a topic, it is limited. The internet has opened up a huge amount of information that is available quickly from nearly anywhere. The issue with conducting online research is deciding what information is good and what information is inaccurate.

 http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=dday_index   This is a link to a website that would be easy for students to find and provide quality information about WWII.