Week 1 Assignment Part 4

After looking through the Technology Applications TEKS for K-12, I found that we are suppose to be sprialing these TEKS all they way through thier school education. In K- 5 they student's need to learn to become proficent at the keyboard, which makes since they are learning to write, read and spell, so we can only hope that they can type thier thoughts out correctly by the end of thier elementary years. In the middle school, the students should be able to create documents, and use them in a variety of ways, and in multiple subjects. As you move to the highschool the options are endless, students could start to write thier own computer problems. However, if we forget to test them on thier abilty to type after 5th grade, then how do we expect them to make computer programs.

As a math teacher, I think it would be important for me to maybe create a lesson where the student's get a problem and they decide how they are going to teach the problem to the class. They can make a powerpoint to present, which would keep them typing, and have them making document's. In powerpoints, there are so many ways to enhance the document as well. Which makes the learning fun and keeps the students engaged. This woud cover TEKS all across the board. Not at much of the foundations, but the communications would be heavily loaded in this lesson.