One topic that is difficult to teach to students because they may find it boring is budgeting, an essential life skill, but one that is typically only taught and glossed over in Introduction to Business courses, and one that most people do not master as a result. In order to be able to make this topic an interesting one, the use of technology may be applied.
There are three separate phases of technology integration, the analysis of learning and teaching needs, planning for integration, and post instruction analysis and revision. The analysis of learning and teaching needs allows for the teacher to determine the relative advantage of the particular strategy, in the case of budgeting, it will be done through an interactive computer lesson where students are given random salaries and advised of their expenditures and told to balance their budgets. The planning for integration stage will allow the teacher to determine the objective of the lesson and the assessments that will be used; in this case the objective would be successfully budgeting their fake salaries and lifestyles, and the assessment would be ensuring that they were able to stay within their budget.
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"Technology Tools: Beyond the Basics".
Finally, the post-instruction analysis and revision stage would consist of the teacher determining if this engaged students properly, if they were able to master the lesson, and determining what about the lesson needed to be revised. In the budget case, it could be revised to provide students with x amount of things that they want to buy and providing them with their spending allowance from their current budget in order to see how they would spend the monies.
Through the integration of technology it would be possible to take any subject and work to make it both active and engaging for students, regardless of how inherently boring or uninteresting students may find the work.
Technology Tools: Beyond the Basic: Part 2: Surveys
Two methods of using surveys in current or future education settings would be to determine how effective a particular teaching strategy or lesson plan was, by either providing feedback to the teacher through doing so or having students provide me with feedback, and surveying them on what they liked and disliked about the course at the end of the course itself.
The survey I have created is a post-graduation survey.
