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 The readings for this week the authors were using technology in ways that allows students to practice their writing skills as well as get feedback. the arguments were technology based this allowed students to work on skills and help developed peers around them like with writing and communication with classmates or a team. when looking at both they both heightened performance and the collaboration and effort overall. when they gave them choice to write for someone besides the teacher it allowed them too to put forth more effort with out the strict judgement of a professor, Some of the "practical advice" that Braff gives at the end of chapter 2 that really sticks with me is number 6 as well as number 8. The reason these stick with me is because we talked in class about these exact topics or “advice”. These 2 advices go well together in the fact that in my class I had Nancy Hayes as my instructor for fundamentals of education, she didn't mind technology within the classroom, but she really didn't like when you were just on your phone to mess around so she came up with the idea to incorporate more technological curriculum ideas such as a kahoot or online surveys that help the entire class to see how they are feeling about this week's assignments or projects. With these technological curriculum ideas, we had many projects that we did online in groups, whole class and individual. I would say that it was very helpful as a learner to use these different technology based project the main thing that was difficult for me to understand was that all we did was online projects nothing that was in class collaboration with other classmates. I would say that the biggest advice I would give would be more student lead teaching and learning with the classroom due to that fact that it works all the vital skills on how to be a successful within the classroom. I would say that the thing that I like the most about these two readings was that how it really engaged students with the materials it helps them build good characteristics and skills needed in life. When coaching my athletes in the future I will definitely be using some of these technology based activities and skills to help further my athletes in the road to be successful. A lot of what was said in these two different readings made sense to me and nothing really doesn't agree with me or doesn't make sense.