How important is it to incorporate technology into your classroom? What are the benefits to you and your students? What are some of the challenges? What are the important lessons you will take with you from this class and use?
Technology in the classroom is going to be an extremely important factor in the success of our classrooms when we enter the profession in a year or so. We have all seen how its being used during early field and by taking classes such as this one. Students today need a constant bombarment of activities, pictures, videos, and other sorts of interactions to keep the learning process fun and new. Using technology allows the classroom teacher to bring all of these things to his/her room. Using SmartBoard technology and having the students do the problems will certainly add fun too, but even using technology that seems older such as overhead projectors or watching movies brings the student further into the material. The challenge is taking the time to create the lesson plans; to put the effort to learn the technology then most importantly find a way to attach it to the material. Personally I plan on using as much as I can from this classroom. The current education field is a bit sketchy and anything I can do to set myself apart from the rest is something that I'll do.
