Online Exercise 14

Online Exercise 14:
1. How can development tools help you to develop students’ higher order skills and creativity? (Development tools: Imaging/Editing Software, drawing tools, web page development tools, multimedia tools, etc.)

Multimedia tools and web page tools involve creativity and originality that cannot be found in a book. They access many parts of the brain. For these reasons, they require higher order thinking skills to organize and use the tools.



2. How can these tools help students to be more productive?

It helps productivity because students are producing something that involves technology, which is most likely of strong interest to them. They are introduced to things they may or may not have used before or have access to at home.



3. What makes these tools suitable for your classroom?

Having a laptop and LCD projector in my classroom helps make digital tools suitable and useful for my students. This wouldn't be possible if I did not have internet access and the projector capabilities.