Instructions with Technologies for Middle School Classrooms

The social media applications above are recommended by teachers. They are very helpful for educators in teaching-learning process in classroom. By using  these applications, the teacher and student are easier in  mastering the materials. Making some learning videos, presentation, discussion in forum are easy now.

Technology has driven the teachers teach and the students learn. Technology will help teachers execute collaborative teaching strategies combined with professional learning that better prepare and enhance educators' competencies and expertise over the course of their careers. Goals addressed include competency of online tools for teaching, creating ways to collaborate, curate, present and implement online resources into a curriculum, and knowledge of online safety procedures and conduct codes for students and teachers. It also will allow the students to interact with material on the computer. For example, it shows the 3D virtual explanation given by the teachers, audio and also tactile. Moreover, students may have more chance to explore numerous resources from all around the globe. By serving the instruction in multimedia, digital art, music, and online discourse for middle school classroom, it can increase the students’ enthusiasm for learning with technology and can stimulate student’s strategic thinking process because they can use a variety of communication media to express their ideas.

There are some applications that allow teacher to give and receive feedback, such as Edmodo, Socrative, Moodle, and Google Forms.  They are very useful social medias in teaching and learning process because both teacher and students can interact in simple way. Moreover, parents may also involve in teaching and learning activity. Through Edmodo, teacher can easily upload the material and check the students’ work. Teacher can also give feedback from students about the assignments given because Edmodo allows student to give response about the assignment. Therefore, teacher can make some improvement toward the quality of the assignment.