Technolgy and The Classroom

Technology is ever changing especially within the realm of the classroom and its implementation in the classroom and its improvement of educating students and improvements of those methods to which teacher teach their students. The ever changing technology is not just the latest and greatest gadget for the teacher to use in the classroom or the student to utilize in class is an iPad or that each student has a laptop. The improvements it is what is available on the internet the sharing of ideas whether it is through Pinterest or Twitter, the sharing of ideas, lesson planning, and techniques to use in the class are now at our finger tips. 

Technology has made it difficult for teaching and learning in today’s classroom. There is a greater dependence on technology today than there has been in the previous years, for both students and teachers.   In the last so many years one of the many complaints about the advances in technology is the use word processing. Often it is sited that poor grammar and spelling is a down side. Additionally, there is a greater dependence on social media and the sharing of ideas whether it is for classroom techniques or lesson planning.

With the advancements in technology in last years it is difficult to say just where it is going and how it will benefit education in the next five years.  Considering all of those advancements it is easily that the advancements will be a big improvement to education in the next five years. Because it will just keep getting better as they have shown to be.

Please listen to how I plan to use technology in my classroom below

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StoryTelling Washington

Digital Storytelling is an excellent tool to use within the classroom. It is another form of multimedia presentation that allows the teacher as well as the student to introduce material. There are many uses for the digital story telling. One that I find to be very helpful in gaging students' participation is the feature that allow for the making of  quiz pages within the presentation. The students can take a quiz that is within the presentation for so that they can have better understanding of the material that is being covered.

Please look at the brief presentation that I created for my students for this week's discussion on President George Washington.

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The Use of Social Media in Education

There is a place for Social Media in education. Though Social Media is still trying to find its placed within the classroom. Educators are still learning of the benefits of Social Media usage within the classroom. Social Media is being used as a tool to connect students globally to collaborate on reports and a variety of school related projects. The use of Social Media is also beneficial to closing the gap when it comes to communicating with parents and teachers, whether it be about up and coming events at the school or lessons in the classroom. After reading the article, "Social Networking Goes to School" it brought to light some of the drawback that can arise with Social Media. Within in the article it highlights concern that Social Media can cause issue with Internet security. Additionally, the article states that the potential for cyberbullying is also cause for the officials in some districts to be skeptical. With those concerns it should be noted that with open lines of communication between, home and school could there be a possibility for a lesser occurrence of cyberbullying since those adults within the students' lives would have more access to their Social Media?