Final Blog

Question: 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?


Answer:  


It is very important for any teacher to incorporate technology in the classroom because it can help prepare students for the vast growing use of technology in the real world. 


Some of the benefits include enhancing the curriculum, flexibility of presentations, improves lectures, and provides visualization in a variety of formats.


A challenge to using technology in the classroom is that it is always changing. Changing rapidly that teachers may not have the time to catch up. Their knowledge in technology may not be as up to date as the technology itself.


Naturally, I will take everything I learned from this class and try to use it effectively in my classroom. I learned some things I did not like and a lot of things that I did like. For example; I really liked the Diigo site where I can store all of my favorite websites. It is an easy way to bring up homework assignments I may want to use, lesson plans for ideas, and videos I found that I want to show my students. One thing I did not like was the use of the Smartboard. It is very tedious and time consuming and as a teacher I feel it's time I will not have.