- In your opinion, what technology tools should we be teaching students today?
- What expectations should we have of students and what should be done to help students meet those expectations?
- Were your schools stuck in the 20th century?
- What was most compelling about the article?
I believe the most useful technology tool we could be teaching students today is the power of the Internet. It has so much information, opinions, and research. There are also important tools on the internet such as blogging, analyzing, reporting, buying, selling, socializing, and even learning which could not only be useful for the classroom, but at home and in the future as well. Using the Internet can make kids interested in doing homework by typing it into a blog or participating in classroom discussions by relating it to the web.
We should expect students to participate and socialize in groups more often while using technology. We should make it as easily as possible for them to feel comfortable, socialize, and adapt with technology. By doing this we can prepare students for the outside world where they need to cooperate and work with others. I also expect my students to be more open to me and comfortable to talk to me if they are having difficulty understanding material or other issues. They can also help me out with what they would like to see or learn in the classroom.
My school was partially stuck in the 20th century. When I entered middle school, my teachers were just beginning to use computer labs to help students with research papers. By my junior year of high school, we used a program called Power School, which was a program that created student’s schedules and organized grades. Although it was helpful for parents and students to know where they are at with their grade, a computer does make mistakes. A computer cannot acknowledge that a student has a learning disability such a hearing loss and needs loud teachers. A computer cannot tell that a student can't comprehend math in the morning and English after lunch, therefore computers are not extremely helpful in all scenarios.
What was most compelling about this article is that teachers are starting to realize ways to draw technology into their lesson plans and realizing students are changing as well as technology therefore learning methods need to be revised. It's extremely important to learn and talk to your students and not just teach them material. Technology incorporated into lesson plans will only expand possibilities to educate students.
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I agree with you in saying that the Internet is a popular tool that teachers should be using in their classrooms. I wish my school used the "power school" program that yours did. Instead it took forever to get grades out to parents and students, and it was almost impossible to know how you were doing throughout the course until you get to the end of the quarter. What a pain.
I like how you said that using the internet is agreat tool for the classroom. There is a lot that students can get out of the internet that will help them be interested in their studies. I also thought it was great that you acknowledge the fact that a computer does not detect a learning disability. That was a great point to make, and it's good that you think a one on one session with the teacher is still very beneficial in our society and therefor computers should not be dependent on.
I liked what you had to say about the internet being the most important tool. The power tool program sounds like a good idea for sending out grades to parents and students.
I agree with you in that the internet is an important tool, but I also think that it's important to point out that we can't be completely dependent on the internet as our main resource because there's always the chance that something could crash and then students wouldn't know how to react.
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