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Update on Readings This week readings we read about assessments and students attitudes toward subject areas in class. Many of us as educators now, have seen some of the same things students are going through, we went through when we were their age. Now there is an answer to these attitudes. The answer is technology.

As we read in "Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works", they express how students have the defeated attitude of why they are struggling in a subject such as math. They blame their struggles on race, gender, or even hereditary. Educators can help these students overcome these attitudes by using and integrating more technology in the classrooms. There are many Internet games and websites that can assist students who are struggling in certain areas. We can use technology to beat the attitude and draw more positive self esteem out of the students.

When we read "Web 2.0 new tools, new schools", it talks about assessments. Many educators today use assessments that may or may not work. This book talks about the new iassessment or assessment 2.0. Using technology can offer a variety assessments that will not only help educators stay organized. One of the assessments it talks about that is good for organizational reasons is e-portfolios. Students can gather all their work in the e-portfolio and submit it to their teacher electronically. The teacher will then have all of that student's work right there and there is no more loosing paperwork. How aweseome is that? This is what technology can do for our children and for us.