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__**Teaching with Technology Week 2 Update**__
This week we looked at strategies with technology that we as teachers may apply for setting objectives for student learning. When setting objectives we must take into consideration what we want our students to learn and know at the end of the lesson. We should engage our students by allowing them to take part in setting their own goals for learning. The goals should be flexible so students may be able to personalize them. "Research shows that when students are allowed to set some of their goals, their motivation is higher than when they pursue only teacher-set goals (Horn & Murphy, 1983)." Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). // Using technology with classroom instruction that works. // Alexandria , VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Chapters 1, p. 18. Technology that we may use to set these objectives or goals may include word processors such as Microsoft Word to create KWHL charts, Web resources that may provide objectives and sites that will help teachers and students create rubrics, communication tools such as Blogs, Wikis, and e-mails that allow students to work collaboratively on projects. As well as data gathering tools such as on line surveys that will provide teachers with information that will help create more personalized goals.  This week we also learned how technology influences student learning, most research backs up what educators believe, that technology positively affects student learning. Research shows that the greatest impact has been in mathematics where students taught with technology have scored higher in assessments than students that learned the same concepts without the use of technology. Studies have proven that technology has had a positive effect on students of low socioeconomic status, these students look at learning through technology as a mean to get out of poverty and have a successful future. They may not have computers at home or access to the internet therefore, they are anxious to utilize the technology available in schools and learn and expand their knowledge with this technology. We also learned about multiple intelligent theories that state that our brains have several multifaceted learning capacities. This means that we all learn differently and in several different ways. The idea that we all learned the same way is actually incorrect. So the more opportunities we provide our students to learn a concept the better the chances of them learning.