Technology with Marzano's Instructional Strategies

•   Is it effective to use technology with all of the strategies? Or is it better not to use technology with certain strategies?

It depends on a lot of things: If you have enough technology resources for every student, If the technology is appropriate for your grade level, How your students respond to different technologies. There are technologies that my class last year loved and my class this year doesn’t understand. I think that non-linguistic strategies should not be used with technology. There are just too many good activities that are more hands on and incorporate movement that would work better for my students.

•   Does the use of technology with Marzano’s Instructional Strategies add to classroom understandings? Or are students more interested in the technology?

This also depends on the technology being used and the students using it. In general, using Marzano’s strategies with technology is greatly beneficial. But with specific technologies, the students got distracted with the technology and ignored the concept. Some technologies are also too complicated for my grade level to use well.

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