Video+Reflections

I thought that during the videos, Dr. Marzano made some interesting points. They showed a bunch of different statistcal data of how the use of technology has raised the students scores/percentiles. The found different things such as how a teachers experience would effect things. Teachers with more teaching experience and more use of the piece of technology created higher gains for their students. With this though, he found that teachers who weren't correctly trained in the technology were better off not using the technology at all. Another interesting bit of information that they discussed was how in a classroom where inter write boards were used 75-85 percent of the time, there was a 29 percentil gain. In classrooms where the inter write boards were used 85-95 percent of the time there was only a 9 percentile gain. After they talked about this it made sense in the fact that doing the same thing over and over becomes a little monotonous. As a teacher you need to change things up to keep the students attention.