As technology continues to make its way into our classrooms, It is important that teachers know how to properly use that technology to ensure their students are receiving all the benefits that it provides. A technology infused classroom is different from what many teachers consider the traditional classroom environment. Within a technology infused classroom the teacher switches from a lecturer to a facilitator that pushes learning in the right direction. The use of technology within the classroom allows for the teacher to teach many different subjects in ways that students enjoy and understand. Teachers using technology within their classrooms should make sure they are adequately prepared to use the different types of technology they plan to use to enhance student learning. There are many different types of technological resources that teachers can take advantage of that can create a classroom environment that allows the children to collaborate and create using their own creative abilities. The role of the teacher in this case is to be sure that their students are completely aware of how to use different types of technology effectively and appropriately. Student's can use technology to create, share, reflect, research, and for many different types of academic development. The teacher should give the student's the tools they need to work with technology and then the children can use their own creative minds to create different types of work based on how they see the final product. Teacher's should be sure to scaffold students in the right direction as they use technology and do their best to prepare their student's for the future and the real world.
Within my current classroom, student's are using technology to create and learn in many different ways. The children within my classroom are constantly using the Internet to research different subjects and to gather more information about different topics. It is my role as the teacher to make sure that my student's are responsible digital learners, and that they are only using resources that are reliable and appropriate. As I teach my student's how to effectively use technology, they will have a whole new world of learning opened up to them. My student's use technology to create presentations using many different types of resources, such as PowerPoint, Google Presentations, and Voice Thread. These resources give my students the opportunity to be creative and to use the Internet to enhance their projects. Productivity software plays a major role within my classroom and help teach my students how to create professional looking types of work. As my students learn how to write professionally, I can include new types of digital learning resources to them. Discussion boards, class websites, and Blogs can give my students the opportunity to collaborate and express themselves in their own creative ways. Technology is important to student learning. Technology will forever be a major part of our lives and effective use needs to be taught. Our children have a lot of prior knowledge of how to use many different types of technology and it is my responsibility as an educator to push their technological learning in the right direction.
A technology infused classroom is a bit like southern style sweet tea. The infusion of the sugars through a heat and dissolution process is so good that the taste is noticeable different than just adding sweeteners to tea. The infusion that is natural, allows students and teachers to work in a technology-rich learning environment without having to work at it. Teachers have to use classroom technologies as natural extensions of their instructional tools, just as the pencil is a natural extension of writing or the textbook is a natural part of the classroom. It takes practice and time to infuse technology into a classroom, where teachers and students use the tools naturally, rather than just adding technology to the teaching and learning process, because the technology is sitting there.
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A technology infused classroom is a bit like southern style sweet tea. The infusion of the sugars through a heat and dissolution process is so good that the taste is noticeable different than just adding sweeteners to tea. The infusion that is natural, allows students and teachers to work in a technology-rich learning environment without having to work at it. Teachers have to use classroom technologies as natural extensions of their instructional tools, just as the pencil is a natural extension of writing or the textbook is a natural part of the classroom. It takes practice and time to infuse technology into a classroom, where teachers and students use the tools naturally, rather than just adding technology to the teaching and learning process, because the technology is sitting there.
ReplyDeleteTo make my point view this video: http://youtu.be/ZHp6C0MapYw
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