I think that technology is really important to stay connected to our students in the classroom in the ever changing world of technology that we live in. There are many things that technology can bring to the classroom to help children learn. This includes the use of smart boards in classrooms and the ability to use tablets in the classroom. The use of technology in classrooms is vital to the advancement in education because as we learned in last mondays class the majority of new jobs in the future will be in the tech sector and will require the knowledge and skills to use technologies such as computers and tablets. As well as having our students be able to code.
There are no types of technology that I do not like. Those that I do enjoy are social media sites like Facebook to be able to keep up with friends and family that live far away. I really like the use of google docs for collaboration on group projects.
For my undergraduate education I was able to use google docs in may group project to allow everyone to collaborate on assignment. I also was introduced in one of my history classes to an app that teachers can use to set up a survey where their students text in the their responses and you can see the result live during the lecture. I have used youtube videos before to learn things such as how to tie knots. The biggest help for me through undergraduate work was the ability to access the online periodical journal needs for research papers as well as using word processing to write those papers. I can not imagine how difficult it would have been for me to have to write a paper by hand and having to physically look through the catalog to find the journal articles that were needed.
I am looking forward to learning how to blog and learning to do computer coding and learning a lot of the terminology that goes with it. I am looking forward to learning how to incorporate technology into the classroom. I am also looking forward to all the different skills we will be learning from blogging to podcating. The one thing I want to avoid is to become to dependent on technology and to not allow it to detract from human interaction with my fellow classmates and future students. The technology should be used to enhance the lessons but not be the only part of the lesson I am looking forward to learning a lot throughout the course of this year and increase my literacy when it comes to technology.
