Imagine a world without a hard copy of textbooks, paper
tests, or hand written stories….
This world is coming soon to our classrooms! American schools are integrating more and more technology into classrooms. Some of the technology seen within schools today are ipads, smart boards, and computers. With the fast pace of
technology being integrated into the daily lives of students, our future kids
will be experts on using technology in the near future if they are not already…
This being said, we as teachers need to become familiar
with the different technology available to us.
Although I am not tech savvy, I am aware that as a teacher I will need
to become more comfortable with technology such as smart boards and online
tests in order to relate to the ever changing society that my students are growing
up in. This week I chose to follow a technology blog written by Will
Richardson. The post was written on
October 8 and is entitled “New Workshop on Abundant Learning.” Will offers different workshops that teach
people about implementing technology into teaching and their daily lives. Some of the statistics about technology
listed on his blog were, there are “Two trillion
WebPages, two billion people connected online, over 600,000 apps and 1.2
billion smart phones.” After seeing
these statistics it became more clear to me how much technology impacts our
daily lives. We are a technology driven
society so, in my opinion, the need for understanding how to implement this in
a classroom is important.
In today’s world we have access to a
number of resources online. Growing up in the 1990's,
technology was just beginning. Over the
last 2 decades it has evolved SO much! Will talks about how resources used to
be limited, but now we have an “abundance” of resources available, but some
people are unsure what to do with them. As teachers we need to be prepared to integrate it into our classrooms in order to prepare our students for the future. In the real world they will need to know how to use technology by the time they start their career. This will help them to get ahead and be prepared when they reach college of begin their career. The
workshops sound like a great way to learn and improve skills so that a teacher
can keep up with the ever changing society and give their kids a head start in furthering their education.
Will created these workshops because he is aware of the growing need for
teachers to be able to understand and implement these resources that are at their
finger tips. I would personally enjoy
going to one of the workshops to learn and familiarize myself with different
programs and resources to engage my students in the learning process and make sure they understand how to use technology as well.
Question: Did your teacher integrate technology in your
classroom when you were a kid? If so, what did he/she use? If not, do you wish
they had?
