My PLN

One of our lectures was over Gamification, gamification can increase participation, engagement and even loyalty. Adding gamification to education can help students with their retention and provides an incentive in the classroom. As someone wanting to be a teacher I found this website   https://tophat.com/blog/gamification-education-class/  helpful because it provides examples for those wanting to add gamification into their classroom. Image Source

Because of technology there are more innovations that can help teachers and students in the classroom. The Ed Tech and Design online class is just one example of this, we were able to use a video chat room on our computers to have discussions with our professor. This is considered an innovation because we are learning without being present in a classroom. https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/02/teaching-innovations  Image Source

It is a fact that classrooms are starting to see more ways of technology being used, especially recently. Walking into any classroom you will see examples throughout the room, like a few computers at the back of the room, the SMART board at the front of the room, there may even be a tablet station somewhere in the room. But are there benefits to bringing technology into the classroom? A study by IT Trade Association CompTIA , released that about 75% of educators believe that technology has a positive impact in the education process. Adding technology into lesson plans could be fun for the students and help the learn more than what they might have without technology because students would have more access to information. Image source

Pre-Map This is my personal learning network map so far. I plan on making it more complex as the semester goes on, by adding new things that help me with