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Answer discussion question 1 and 2 in 150 words! Must cite references.

1. How can technology motivate learning, support student success, and spark innovation, effective communication, and research? Identify 2-3 digital tools that effectively support student learning. Rationalize your choice.

2. As an educator, you will encounter students who do not want to be in school and do not want your help. How will you reach these students? Describe 2-3 practices or interventions that will help in creating a positive classroom environment and motivate this type of student.

Respond to 3 and 4 & 5 in 100 words.

3. Professor wrote:Hello Leaders,

A positive learning environment is one of the most critical components of a skills-based health education classroom. A positive learning environment is created when you value participatory teaching and learning and when there is trust and rapport among students and between yourself and students. Well, an environment where students do not feel accepted or respected is a distraction from learning. A positive learning environment means that a student feels comfortable, has a sense of rapport with their teacher and peers, and believes they can be successful. Why is a positive learning environment important for learners? Well, an environment where students do not feel accepted or respected is a distraction from learning. A positive learning environment means that a student feels comfortable, has a sense of rapport with their teacher and peers, and believes they can be successful (Elizabeth F. Barkley, 2010).

Create a Sense of Order

For example, teach students how to:

· Enter the classroom and become immediately engaged in a learning activity

· Distribute and collect materials

· Find out about missed assignments due to absence and how to make them up

· Get the teacher’s attention without disrupting the class

· Arrange their desks quickly and quietly for various purposes: in rows facing the front for direct instruction, in pairs for collaborative learning, in groups of four for cooperative learning, and in a large circle for class discussions.

Get to Know Your Students

The more you know about your students’ cultures, interests, extracurricular activities, personalities, learning styles, goals, and mindsets, the better you can reach them and teach them. Some ways of getting to know your students:

· Educate yourself about their cultures

· Talk to them

· Assign journal prompts and read and respond to them

· Attend extracurricular events

· Have students complete interest inventories or surveys

· Have students complete learning style and personality assessments

· Hold regular class meetings

· Play team-building games with students

What are your thoughts?

4. Incorporating technology in lessons and activities not only prepares students for the digital world in college and careers, but can also act as a tool to excite and engage students in learning content. Incorporating use of tablets, smartphones, laptops, and other technological tools creates active learners because many of the softwares are self directed, rather than a more passive learning experience that is typical of taking notes from a lecture. Technology can offer a fun take on a lesson that might not typically seen as enjoyable - something such as a math game, or competitive history quiz. Additionally, such technologies can promote collaboration amongst peers - A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education showed that tech savvy students are likely to help a peer that struggles with the use of technology (Capella University, 2017).I recently earned my Apple Teacher Badge and have found Apple’s applications to be user friendly and a creative tool to use. From my understanding, these apps can be downloaded onto any Apple product, including MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones. Our district has provided teachers with MacBooks and iPads, and students with MacBooks at the secondary level. Allowing each student to have their own device will allow teachers to explore and pursue different ways to incorporate fun technologies into lessons. I plan to use Pages (an Apple application), to have students facilitate research projects in my Foods classes this year - text and images can be added to the document. It can be taken a step further by a student recording his/her own voice and adding audio or video to the page. Additionally, multiple students can collaborate and work on the same document in real time. This will be a great tool as we start our school year virtually.

5. Amanda wrote: Unfortunately, there will be instances that as a teacher you will have a student that comes into your class who has a negative mindset towards school and has given up on the idea of learning, refusing help from you as the teacher. The first thing that any educator in this situation should do is try to attempt to form a connection, maybe when checking their homework write encouraging remarks, stop by their desk to check in on them. If you can try to find something that interests them a favorite song, movie, book, or sport, so that you can show them you are someone they can connect with and trust you can help them drop their guard enough to learn why they are unhappy.

The goal here is to be able to open the door for them to talk to you and share with you why they do not like school, maybe it was a past teacher who made them feel embarrassed or dumb, maybe they are stressed with the class load, or maybe they are having a hard time connecting the school work with their life. Over the year’s education has lost sight of the students, “school seems more like a feedlot force-feeding them facts without adequate time or resources to make them interesting or relevant” (Willis, 2010, para. 2). This could be the underlying issue, or it may be something larger. But the reality of the situation is you have a student who the current system has either failed them too many times or is suffering from something larger and they need to know they are safe and understood.

According to Wormeli (2014), the practices that have occurred in education up to this point in time all strive for control over students from the way educators talk to students all the way to how they grade papers. During adolescence, teens are at their most vulnerable and negative energy and negative feedback towards them can be determinantal their confidence. According to Wormeli (2014), for teachers to create a classroom that is positive and motivating they have to adopt two mind sets: they have to recognize that motivation is created not forced and that laziness is sign that something else might be going on. The worst thing a teacher can do is just assign a title to student- lazy, stupid- without taking the time to talk to the student, listen without judgment, and try to build a repour with them. Wormlei (2014), said that humans are hardwired to demanding things but too much at once can overload them and force them to shut down.

I am not sure the definition, regarding what these types of interventions are called, but one of the s to attempting to mend a student’s relationship with learning is making it connect to their interests. If it is reading that they are struggling, have them select the book or article they want to read (Wormeli, 2014). Another step, probably the first and most important step, is to build relationships with the students in your class. Teachers should empathize and build trust, do not make a shy student feel belittled when they offer an answer during class that is not correct but try to recognize their participation in a positive way (Wormeli, 2014). These two steps may not be enough separately to help alter a student’s experience sometimes involving the parents in the discussion has to be another part, but the main aspect behind motivation and creating a positive environment means recognizing some behaviors are an outcry for help and no behavior should be subjected to the ego of misunderstanding. We have to stop telling students how they feel, how they should think and simply listen to what they are saying (Wormeli, 2014).