PowerPoint Kiosk

Using PowerPoint Kiosks, students are given an interactive tool to help encourage their learning in a new and exciting way. For students, this is a great way to expand their learning using technology, but to also explore other resources that were embedded into the kiosk, such as extra websites and information. This is great for those students who are naturally curious and desire to learn about more than what is required to answer a question on a test. I think that Kiosks are a great way for teachers to exercise the multiple methods of technology. There are so many wonderful technology related resources out on the web, it just requires that teachers make the effort to find out how to get them and how to implement them. It can be very helpful for teachers to organize information in the form of a Kiosk, and use the kiosk to implement student assessment in a fun and interesting way.

Even though the Kiosk is a great way for students to learn and review material, only some students may really enjoy it, while others may find it frustrating and uninteresting. The Kiosk is a great tool for those students who enjoy using technology, enjoy reading material offline, and those who enjoy having the option to simply click to learn more on a certain topic. The kiosk would work well with those visual learners, and if audio was implemented into the kiosk, those audio learners as well. Kiosks may be a struggle for those students who are not familiar with technology, or those learners who have difficulty paying attention to a screen for a given amount of time. Those body-kinesthetic learners may not gain very much from a kiosk.

I really liked the Kiosk on the seasons. It showed a really great visual of what each of the four seasons look like. I think it was great how they embedded the tree video of how it “magically” changed. This is something I would most definitely use it if I was teaching a lesson on the four seasons. I also really enjoyed learning about the digestive system, and how the body works to digest food. The visuals were great, since we cannot see inside of our own bodies, it was great to see the visual information on the kiosk.