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** Felita Reed ** ** Relative Advantage of Using Technology ** ** For First Grade Students in Elementary School **

Website. || This is an interactive reading website which sounds out worlds for the children and allows them to read along with the computer. This builds the students phonics and literacy skills || The students will sound out words on their own and increase their reading accuracy and speed. || The students have difficulty writing essays and speeches. || The internet. Videos Instructional Software || The Internet provides access to methods and examples, across multiple subject areas, for demonstrating how to define this concept, specifically when performing analogous research and identification (Q & A) activities. Students can use web-based resources to research information on how to become familiar with/learn this concept. || The students will learn to synthesize ideas and develop their ideas into written essays and began to learn to prepare speeches. || Science. The students lack skills in problem solving. || The Smart Board Promethean Board via Smart Board activities and promethean planet activities || These types of technologies allow students the advantage of seeing, hearing, and interacting with various interactive, web-based media in ways that provide contextual and applied understanding across subject areas. || The students can learn in a variety of instructional methodologies. || The students are not able to tell time. || The Smart board/Promethean Board/Instructional Software || These types of technologies allow students the advantage of seeing, hearing, and interacting with various interactive, web-based media in ways that provide contextual and applied understanding across subject areas. || The students will learn to tell time. || United Streaming Videos on the Lifecycle of a Butterfly. || The students will learn from listening to a story which details the butterflies’ lifecycle and then view a video which will help students to exercise their visual and auditory learning abilities. || The students will learn to describe the various stages of butterflies. ||
 * Learning Problems || Technologies || Relative Advantage || Expected Outcomes ||
 * Students are having trouble sounding out words in reading || Starfall.com
 * Math: Students cannot count money. || Harcourt Mega Math software program || This is an interactive software program which allows students to practice counting out money during a computer simulated game which they are trying to purchase items from a store. || This will increase the students’ ability to count money. ||
 * Science: Students have trouble understanding the planets. || United Streaming website || This is a discovery education website which allows the students to view videos on the subject and participate in guided and independent practice activities thereafter. || The students will learn valuable information about science which covers life, earth, and physical science. ||
 * Language Arts:
 * Social Studies, Math,
 * Math
 * Learning Problems || Technologies || Relative Advantage || Expected Outcomes ||
 * The students cannot understand the different stages of metamorphosis of a Butterfly || Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
 * The students have trouble understanding the sequence in simple stories. || Read Aloud Books, Graphic Organizers || To better understand and apply the concept of the sequence of events in stories. The students will benefit from seeing the teacher demonstrate the concept || The students learn to analyze stories and sequence the order of the events in the stories. ||
 * Reading/Language Arts: The students have trouble identifying the story elements in simple stories. || Reading Software programs, graphic organizers. || The students will learn via interactive instruction on the computer and they will practice the skill after they have participated in a guided activity with their teacher. || The students will learn to identify story elements in simple stories. ||