Use
of Technology for Literacy Learning: 04
The
Teacher's Role in Choosing and Using Technology
Evaluating Technological
Applications
To evaluate technological
applications for your classroom, answer the following questions:
Does the application
- address content
that is needed in this curriculum?
- motivate students
to learn the content?
- clarify the concept
for the student in some way?
- lend itself to
use in your classroom structure?
Is the application
- easy to implement?
- instructionally
sound?
- cost-effective?
- more effective
than other possible approaches to the task?
Taken
from Burns/Roe/Smith Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools,
Eighth Edition. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2002.
Chapter 11, pages 410-440
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