Blog #5

The use of Powerpoint in the average classroom has become extremely prevelant. This multi-media tool I feel has increased the learning capacity of students and the affectiveness of teachers to get information across to different learners. As a High School Special Education teacher I can see multi-media tools such as Powerpoint coming in extremely helpful with my students. I want to teach in a Mild-Moderate classroom so my students won't be as much physically handicapped as they will be mentally. My students will have to overcome such obstacles as ADD, ADHD and Autism. How PowerPoint can assist me in the classroom will be to keep these students focused on small condensed slides for a short amount of time and then onto a next one that may contain some sort of video link or sound clip. The constant change of slides and use of videos and graphs I feel will be able to keep the students short attention spans at grasp better than an average lecture or plan overhead.

After reviewing the Bloom article it refreshed my mind as to what I studied during my Under-Grad. I myself was a student that was able to get by pretty well when it came to the spelling tests as a young child when only memory was tested but my brother did not do as well. Later in school and life he became a much better student grade wise due to the other levels of the pyramid, application, analysis, etc. Bloom makes some great points in the article especially to keep students interested and maintain their attention.