Tech+Integration

Tech Integration

Technology integration is much more than I thought it was at the beginning of the semester. Technology integration covers a vast area of subjects and applications that you can use. When the semester began, I did not know what a Smart Board was, and after seeing it in action I still thought it was just a glorified powerpoint. But after creating one, I now realize that there are endless possibilities with how you can use a Smart Board in your classroom. I thought that the extent of technology in the classroom was internet research, power points, and youtube clips. After being in this class I now know that you can incorporate technology into the classroom in ways I had never seen before. Podcasts, digital story boards, and wiki pages are all ways that you can engage students in learning. Bringing technology into the classroom can help students take a more proactive stance on school. The students of generation Z bring many challenges into the classroom and most of those challenges evolve around technology, whether it is how to manage their cell phone use, to cyberbullying, to creating new lessons that students will actually want to be involved in, technology is at the focus point. I think that technology in the classroom is underrated at the moment, but here in the near future, it will be front and center, and it is our job to make sure we can teach students the basic skills about using technology and using it correctly. They always say that the children are our future, so in order to make sure that our future is bright, we as educators must help them reach their potential, and by bringing in more technology to the classrooms, we can help that saying become a reality.

Reflection ?'s

This is my ideas about how technology can improve your classroom and how it can be incorporated into your classroom.

I think that having an open mind about incorporating technology into your classroom will only benefit you in the long run. Today's students are driven by technology, so the more you incorporate it into your classroom the more engaged your students will become.

I plan on using the ideas presented above to help improve my teaching and make it more interesting for the studnets.