John Hawkins
Reflection 2
After reading this text, I found that there are many different ways that kids can engage in meaningful learning. The main thing that I personally took from the reading is that collaboration involving students working together do teachers often not handle an important way for students to learn that is correctly. The negotiation, conversation, and overall interaction that kids partake in during group work are very helpful.
It was interesting to me how the text describes technology as “much more than hardware.” Technology, according to the text, can also be activities and designs that should serve the function of helping students learn. I think it is very true that technology provides a means of organization that would be impossible without it. Technology gives kids the chance to access needed information that would otherwise be unavailable. Technology, along with group/cooperative learning, can be a big help to students if it is used correctly.