Reflection

Technology and multimedia resources contribute positively to the elementary language arts instructional approach in the following ways... -The internet in general is an excellent positive contribution to the elementary language arts instructional approach. It offers a number of resources for both teachers and students, including videos and various amounts of websites. -This day in age students are very familiar with technology, sometimes even more than teachers! When teachers use technology in there classroom it almost helps the students interest in the language arts and other subjects. The teacher using resources like technology in which the students are familiar and comfortable with, will most likely increase the amount of students who will find the subject interesting.

Examples of using technology as an alternative method of assessment/evaluation of students language, literacy, and academic content understanding are listed below.

-Electronic Portfolios-this is a great way for a teacher to assess there student and the work that the students has completed online. It allows the student to be organized, practice there language and literacy, as well as using a great way to incorporate technology. -Smart Boards-This is a great resource in assessing your students. There are a number of different types of assessment that you can do using a smartboard. Some including using a clicker system. There are also ways that you could have a sentence up on the smartboard, and have your students walk up and circle or fix any errors that there are in that sentence. -Wikispaces-Having a wiki allows your student to go online and turn in assignments. This makes it easy for the student to write essays, poems, etc, and turn them in directly on to the teachers wiki.