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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE .................................................................................................................... 1
TITLE PAGE ...................................................................................................................... 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................ 3
AUTHOR PAGE............................................................................................................... 4-5
ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ 6
EFFECTIVE WAYS TO TEACH THROUGH TECHNOLOGY BASED GAMES ......................... 7-8
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................... 9
ADVERTISEMENT ............................................................................................................ 10
INTERVIEWS............................................................................................................... 11-15
BACK PAGE .................................................................................................................... 16

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About the Author

Karen Niehaus was born on January 23rd, 1999, in Dallas, Texas. Karen has graduated
high school at Richland College with her associates degree, and is now working towards
her bachelor’s in Early Childhood Special Education at Brigham Young University in
Rexburg, Idaho. During Karen’s free
time, she enjoys spending time with her
friends and family, playing volleyball,
going on road trips, painting, and playing
musical instruments. Along with these
free-time activities, for as long as she can
remember, Karen has always had a strong
passion to become a teacher for
elementary school students, and is
currently working to fulfil that goal.
Karen hopes to become a first or second
grade teacher for a school in her home
town in Texas. Karen’s biggest goal within her future career is to be loving to children,
as well as being as intentional and thoughtful as possible with the curriculum that she
provides her future students with. She is working towards being the best teacher she can
possibly be to the students that will be in her classroom, and she is extremely motivated
in her college classes through that. She is devoted to learning in school in order to help
her future students learn in the best way possible. She decided to write the article,

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Effective Ways to Teach Through Technology Based Games, because technology is

becoming such a big part of the world’s everyday life. Karen wanted to be able to

enlighten future teachers, current teachers, and caregivers of children of the many

different ways you can effectively educate a child in a fun, new, intentional, and exciting

way through technology. She is excited to share this information to parents, teachers,

and future teachers, like herself, in order to bring in a fun, fresh, and advanced learning

experience into the home and classrooms all across the United States.

(305 words).

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Abstract
As the world advances in technology, daily tasks, and even our educational
system is changing in drastic ways. Technology is becoming more a part of our lives,
and it will only continue to advance as the years go by. It is important to keep an open
mind as we adapt and transform to the ways of technology, especially while teaching the
younger generation of children. Denying that it is important to teach children with
technology is not only going to hinder their development as they will grow up to be
completely unaware of how the world works around them, but it is neglecting the fact
that children are going to be growing up in a world of technology, and they will be lost
and confused within the only world they know. There are many different websites and
technology based games that will support the growing knowledge of children within a
classroom while keeping them in tune with how technology functions. While it also is
important for a child’s developmental growth to be aware of new technology and be able
to be savvy with it, technology actually does have classroom management benefits. By
using technology, lessons can have a new and exciting feel to the children. While
children are being taught different lessons through technology, children are more likely
to continue to be engaged. The way you introduce and teach a lesson has a profound
effect on how the child will learn or what the child will get out of what you are
attempting to have them learn. Using technology in the classroom in a variety of
different ways will cause for the child’s attention to be grabbed, and for that attention to
be retained for the lesson. It is important to keep all of these aspects in mind and to also
be intentional when planning different activities. (307 words).

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Effective Ways to Teach Through
Technology Based Games

In this year of 2019, it is evident that a helpful tool as a leisure activity, but it has
the world has changed a lot in the past become incorporated into all different kinds
decade. Many inventions and new of careers, including a teacher’s career.
discoveries have started to transform our Teachers have been able to incorporate
world. As technology advances, our world is technology within their everyday lessons.
also advancing through it. Many different Teachers are changing the game as they use
technologies that we would have never new technology based games in their lesson
thought possible have been introduced to us, plans to their very best advantage.
and they slowly but surely are changing life
as we knew it. It is easy to stay old Teachers across the world have found many
fashioned and be blind to the benefits of ways they are able to effectively incorporate
technology when you have grown up technology into everyday academics within
without it, however, as the times are their own classrooms. Teacher and student
changing, you must make sure that you are favorites include different technology based
keeping an open mind and allowing yourself games, which allows for students to stay
to adapt with the times rather than pushing engaged and entertained, while staying
against it. By using technology with positive focused, on track, and while continuing to
intentions and controlled usage, it can be an expand their knowledge in whichever
extremely powerful and helpful tool. As our subject they are learning. One of America’s
world has advanced, education has adapted favorite technology based games that allows
along with it. Today, more and more uses for effective teaching and learning is
for technology such as games to support the Kahoot. Kahoot is an online website, as well
growth of learning all different subjects in as a newly developed app on smart phones.
education are emerging in classrooms all According to Learning Tech for the
around the world. Classroom, “Student engagement with this
game is high. The students enjoy playing
As technology becomes more this game because it is fast paced, visual,
profound in our everyday lives, technology and energetic. Because of this, teachers can
games are emerging and are a bigger thing see if students truly understand the material
now than ever. Many may argue that online that was covered through the use of both
games may never replace the old fashioned Kahoot quizzes and surveys. It is a way to
and tangible board games, however, more see student understanding of material”
and more people are favoring the excitement (Zieller-Bliss 2018).
and the new feel of the advanced, online,
technology based games. As technology Another great and effective technology
becomes a bigger part of the world’s based game to include in classrooms is
everyday life, the more advantages are Kubbu. Kubbu is a website with a variety of
found in it. Technology has not only become online games, but has the option to allow

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any ordinary classroom to be turned into a accordingly. Intentional teachers have a vast
realistic Jeopardy game show. According to understanding of child development. They
Kubbu, the website also “allows you to must also have a wide range of instructional
create matching games, crosswords or strategies and know which strategies work
quizzes and results can be calculated best to teach which academic or
automatically and stored in your database” developmental concept” (Bietz 2015).
(Kubbu 2018). Allowing children variety in
how they learn with technology based games According to Cathy LeDosquet, a second-
causes eagerness to learn, and causes a grade teacher at Teton Elementary in Teton,
classroom full of new surprises. With new Idaho, “The importance of using technology
surprises, children will, almost without fail, in everyday academics is that they will be
stay engaged during the lesson activity. using it in their future jobs so they need to
There are many ways to introduce lesson be accustomed to it” (LeDosquet 2019).
topics, however, it is important to choose a While the world advances and our world
delivery form that is engaging in order for changes in many different ways, we must
children to be less likely to be distracted by keep in mind that the children being brought
other things going on around them. The into the world during these times are
more distractions are able to be under growing up in a completely different world
control, and more likely it will be for than how it was earlier in the day. Not
children to gain new information from the introducing technology to the newer
lesson. generations could hinder and delay the
learning of the young ones, as the world
Teaching is a vital profession that human they live in and the world they grow up in
beings all rely on as they grow up, mature, will mostly be made up of technology.
and develop. With that being said, teaching
is a very great responsibility! Since it is an It is evident that the world is changing as
important profession, teachers must be very technology advances. As technology
intentional with how a classroom is set up, advances, classrooms advance with it. For
and intentional with lessons that will be children, life with technology is what they
taught and most importantly, how the lesson have grown up with and it is all they know.
will be delivered. Being intentional as a It is important that teachers around the
teacher has been proven to be majorly world are mindful of the fact that technology
effective, and a child will gain more in will always continue to become a bigger part
education through each lesson that is taught. of the world, so it is important that they
“Intentional teaching means that teachers act teach children the ways of how the world
with specific goals in mind for the children will be through effective teaching through
in their care and set up the environment technology based lessons and games.
(988 words).

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References

Bietz, K. (2015, October 30). Understanding the Concept of Intentional Teaching in
Early Childhood Classrooms. Retrieved from

https://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-preschool/93656-intentional-teaching-
techniques/

Gamify Your Classroom. (2018, March 02). Retrieved from https://www.smore.com/11t9w-
gamify-your-classroom

LeDosquet, C. (2019, March 11). Technology in Classes [Interview]. Teton, Idaho.

Mcdaniel, R. (2017, July 21). Game-Based Learning. Retrieved from
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/docs/game-based-learning/

Zieller-Bliss, B. (n.d.). Kahoot Review. Retrieved from
http://learningtechfortheclassroom.weebly.com/kahoot-review.html

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Interviews

Principal Jim Carter, M.Ed. Supervisory If I could give one piece of advice to
Endorsement, Garland High School, teachers across the country it would be is
Garland, TX. to not be too hard on your students.
Especially the younger ones. I see a lot
1) What are results of poor classroom of times young children not being
management that you have seen respected, and I mean I know it’s hard to
throughout schools? be patient all the time, but they’re
children! There are better ways to handle
I have seen many examples through the misbehavior than to yell at them.
schools of my own children, but the
most obvious result of poor classroom 4) What are some non-traditional
management is the lack of organization approaches to teaching that you have
in the classroom. With a lack of seen or/and experienced and would
organization, a classroom does not feel you like to see them used in the
like a very welcoming environment to future?
learn in.
In one of my children’s classroom, I
2) How have you been able to make noticed the teacher would teach through
your weaknesses as a principal into music. That was her strength. I enjoyed
strengths? hearing the stories my child had when
she came home from school and how
I used to not be very good at keeping my much fun she had learning different
mouth shut. That was my problem as a definitions and terms through a song. It
young kid, and I think I really used that really helped her succeed.
to my advantage with making better
connections with the children I come 5) What is the importance of using
across in the halls or in a teacher’s technology through every day
classroom. I remember feeling academics?
intimidated by old principals or teachers
I had as a kid and remembering how The world is changing. I believe it has
they would just stare but never converse. become vital that technology is a part of
I think it is better to be chatty and open education because it’s what the world is
with a child so they know you’re not the becoming. We are adapting and these
bad guy. children will be growing up with
technology. They can’t be clueless to it.
3) What is one piece of advice you
would give to teachers across the
country?

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Cathy LeDosquet, 2nd Grade Certified
Teacher, Teton Elementary, Rexburg,
ID.

1) What are results of poor classroom Practice self-care.
management that you have seen
throughout schools? 4) What are some non-traditional
approaches to teaching that you have
The results I have seen from poor seen or/and experienced and would
classroom management is that the you like to see them used in the
teachers cannot effectively teach. I am a future?
big believer that you cannot teach until
you can manage a classroom. The approach I have seen to teaching
that I would like to see continued is math
2) How have you been able to make instruction where many strategies are
your weaknesses as a teacher into taught and where students work in the
strengths? sequence of CRA (Concrete-
manipulative, representational- drawing,
I have been able to make my strengths abstract- algorithm)
by setting a written goal and asking
coworkers to observe me and give me 5) What is the importance of using
feedback. technology through every day
academics?
3) What is one piece of advice you
would give to teachers across the The importance of using technology in
country? everyday academics is that they will be
using it in their future jobs so they need
to be accustomed to it.

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Andrew Duran, 9th Grade Student at Garland
High School, Garland, TX.

1) What are results of poor classroom Teachers should actively seek to create a
management that you have seen working environment in which students
throughout schools? cannot continue their habits. This can
apply to work ethic and time
Poor classroom management creates an management or even to information
environment of suppressed potential of gathering, epistemological approach, and
each student in the classroom. displayed interest

2) How have you seen your teachers 4) What are some non-traditional
turn their weaknesses into strengths? approaches to teaching that you have
seen or/and experienced and would
A weakness such as stubbornness or you like to see them used in the
disregard of students can and has future?
motivated a minority into a success
which would not otherwise have been It is important for teachers to be less
achieved. When a teacher is stubborn, lenient and clearly establishing both the
they can see that it has a negative effect guidelines to follow in order for students
on their classroom, later then fixing their stay more on task.
own issues.

3) What is one piece of advice you 5) What is the importance of using
would give to teachers across the technology through every day
country? academics?

While it is important to use technology
in education while it is becoming a large
part of our world, we must focus on
better utilization.

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Anthony Niehaus, Parent, Bachelors in
Business, Dallas, TX.

1) What are results of poor classroom Talk with your students individually
management that you have seen and with both parents heart to heart
throughout schools? and openly

Student / Parent distrust or lack of 4) What are some non-traditional
confidence in the teacher to do a approaches to teaching that you have
good job seen or/and experienced and would
you like to see them used in the
2) How have you seen your teachers future?
turn their weaknesses into strengths?

When good teachers realize their Real world examples and acting out
weaknesses, and try to do better they situations and asking lots of open ended
are able to turn them into strengths questions and listening and following
but it requires parent teacher where this takes the conversations
conferences and the ability to
communicate in a clear manner to let 5) What is the importance of using
them know what may be missing or technology through every day
how classroom teaching can be academics?
improved.
Technology in communicating with
3) What is one piece of advice you parents and teaching kids is very
would give to teachers across the important and it’s where teaching and
country? learning is going. Online math is a good
help for my 2nd grader.

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Matthew Montague, Sophomore at BYU-
Provo. Provo, Utah.

1) What are results of poor classroom 4) What are some non-traditional
management that you have seen approaches to teaching that you have
throughout schools? seen or/and experienced and would
you like to see them used in the
Teachers not having the materials they future?
need or having their schedule disrupted
due to school events and not being able I can’t think of a specific thing but
to improvise well maybe teachers having us do projects but
the projects are of us learning how to
2) How have you seen your teachers teach the lesson.
turn their weaknesses into strengths?
5) What is the importance of using
I’ve seen teachers that struggle to keep technology through every day
their class under control take the energy academics?
of the class and use it to keep them
engaged by things like games and Technology is becoming more needed
competitions. and it gives students access to so much
more and opportunities to collaborate.
3) What is one piece of advice you
would give to teachers across the
country?

To be passionate about what you teach.

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