Blog Post #12-Current View of Technology in the Classroom

I think having technology integrated into the classroom is extremely important. Doing so creates many positive opportunities for the students. I am going to use technologies in my classroom that are appropriate and use as a learning tool that is enjoyable for my students. There are a lot of tools that I am excited to use in my classroom in the future that I learned about in this class. I will be using the internet. I will utilize it to locate activities, lessons, educational games, and for communication. There are many softwares that I will be using as well. I have learned about Kidpix, Kidspiration, Neighborhood Map Machine, Quest Atlantis, Timeliner, 2simple, Comiclife, and many other are specific programs that I will aim to use in my classroom. Web blogs may be something that I could integrate into my classroom. There are many ways that technology can be used to improve learning. I think that students will be more interested in interactive websites compared to worksheets. As far as assistive technologies go, I have learned about many of them as well in this course. There are many devices available to use. So, because of this class, I have realized the importance of implimenting technology into the classroom and all the different opportunities that come along with it. Technology makes lessons more exciting for children and it is something that will be used in everyday life, so might as well expose technology to them early in life!