Blog Post 7

Technology is gradually moving into classrooms around the world. This is even more prevelant in America. Technology allows teachers as well as students to broaden their learning spectrum. Technology also allows students to teach themselves, which in some regards is scary. There are ways as students and teachers to control what our children are doing on the internet, using apps and parental protection software. If a child has their own source of technology in the classroom then they can learn at their own speed, say each child has an ipad in the classroom. They can now study, do homework, and research on their own.
In the video 10 reasons to use technology, there are many obvious reasons to use technology in a classroom made obvious in the video. Students already use so much technology on a daily basis that incorporating their homework would probably encourage them to do it more often. The technology resource is also very useful for teachers. Let's be honest we as educators are expected to have all the answers and we don't, with the use of technology in the classroom we can easily find information we don't know.
With technology in classrooms we can show the student real world problems the minutes they happen. As a senior in high school most students are worried what the real world will hold, with technology we can show them real world expenses for those going directly into the workforce so they can understand what they are getting into. As for those expecting to continue their education we can show them litterally what a college class will be like. with some teachers posting their lectures via podcast on the internet. So we can show kids how a college classroom is held.
If we as future educators don't know how to use the internet then we have failed before we set foot in the classroom. I have learned of a few programs that i can successfully use as a coach in the future. I look

to continue to learn about these programms.