In chapter 12 of Jacobs book she gives a few examples of how technology was brought into a classroom. In one instance students took more pride in their work when they knew it would be shared through pictures on the projectors the next morning. Students want to impress not only their teachers, but their peers too. Something as simple as candid pictures of the students working on the projects was enough to give them the sense of ownership to become prideful of they work.
Material needs to be delivered to students in interesting, relevant ways if they want the students to take as much as they can out of it. Students claim to be bored because the perceive the methods they are learning by as "irrelevant". The presentation of material is just as important as the content itself.
I definitely agree with you Rachael! Jacobs found an interesting way to deliver the material to her students in the science lab that day and the response was very positive! The students may have found the same content to be less interesting and "irrelevant" if she had chosen to deliver in a less effective way.
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