Technology is great and can change thinking in a positive way. The advancement in technology allows for teachers and students to access tons of materials more easily. It also allows for students to use lots of fun and entertaining programs. I think technology can improve schools in so many ways. I just think about how schools were when I was there compared to what the students have today. Just the other day during my student teaching the students were participating in a project about their hero. Each student was to research a hero of theirs and write a dialogue as if they were the hero being interviewed. Then I recognized something that I never had access to as a 4th grader, a laptop computer. The students looked up biographies about their heroes, and answered a handout to help make their dialogues. After they created their dialogue the students interviewed one another while the teacher filmed it with a flip camera. I thought this was such a cool way to use technology to make a project more fun for the students.
Technology defiantly changes ones thinking. Technology allows the impossible to be possible. In school teachers can make web pages for their students. Students can make ongoing portfolios of their whole school careers. Power points can be made to display notes. Lessons can be interactive with smart boards. The options are limitless.
Technology today is often used as a crutch where thinking is thought of only second if technology fails. We are quick to pull out out tip calculator instead of doing the simple math in our head. Technology can be used through the SmartBoard, not only as a visual aid but as an interactive tool to get students engaged and participating in their own learning.
Technology changes thinking by bringing events of the world together and allows information to be easily accessed at the touch of a finger. We have our phones, computers, tablets and other technology allows us to communicate and explore new information every day. Technology can be sustained in the schools with the help of money and those with knowledge of it. Because technology is ever-changing I feel that students and teachers will only continue to benefit from the use of it.
I agree that technology makes it easier for one to access information and communicate with each other. I think it is a great tool to use in school, but teachers need to be aware that technology is abused sometimes too though. Anything can be found on the internet today, this sometimes causes students to cheat, plagiarize, buy term papers etc. Using calculators to solve basic math problems instead of trying to solve it the old fashion way. All that being said, I still think technology is important resource that we should in schools, both teachers and student benefit from it.
Technology is great and can change thinking in a positive way. The advancement in technology allows for teachers and students to access tons of materials more easily. It also allows for students to use lots of fun and entertaining programs. I think technology can improve schools in so many ways. I just think about how schools were when I was there compared to what the students have today. Just the other day during my student teaching the students were participating in a project about their hero. Each student was to research a hero of theirs and write a dialogue as if they were the hero being interviewed. Then I recognized something that I never had access to as a 4th grader, a laptop computer. The students looked up biographies about their heroes, and answered a handout to help make their dialogues. After they created their dialogue the students interviewed one another while the teacher filmed it with a flip camera. I thought this was such a cool way to use technology to make a project more fun for the students.
ReplyDeleteTechnology defiantly changes ones thinking. Technology allows the impossible to be possible. In school teachers can make web pages for their students. Students can make ongoing portfolios of their whole school careers. Power points can be made to display notes. Lessons can be interactive with smart boards. The options are limitless.
ReplyDeleteTechnology today is often used as a crutch where thinking is thought of only second if technology fails. We are quick to pull out out tip calculator instead of doing the simple math in our head. Technology can be used through the SmartBoard, not only as a visual aid but as an interactive tool to get students engaged and participating in their own learning.
ReplyDeleteTechnology changes thinking by bringing events of the world together and allows information to be easily accessed at the touch of a finger. We have our phones, computers, tablets and other technology allows us to communicate and explore new information every day. Technology can be sustained in the schools with the help of money and those with knowledge of it. Because technology is ever-changing I feel that students and teachers will only continue to benefit from the use of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that technology makes it easier for one to access information and communicate with each other. I think it is a great tool to use in school, but teachers need to be aware that technology is abused sometimes too though. Anything can be found on the internet today, this sometimes causes students to cheat, plagiarize, buy term papers etc. Using calculators to solve basic math problems instead of trying to solve it the old fashion way. All that being said, I still think technology is important resource that we should in schools, both teachers and student benefit from it.
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