Reflection: Technology

In all of our education classes we hear time and time again how important it is to incorporate technology. I could not agree more. As times are changing technology is making such an impact on our society. Using these tools enriches our assignments and motivates the students to be working with tools students find intriguing and even fun. Over the past six weeks we have used the SmartBoard, Blogs, Apps and Applets. I really appreciated the SmartBoard work because we don't cover it in any of our classes and there are just so many options on it. I love that we each had opportunity to find or show something on the board to the class because there are things that not all of us knew or though about. I loved the idea of using the dice but putting words on them and asking for the definitions. I love the SmartBoard and sadly think a lot of schools that could use them can't afford them and schools that do have them do not use them to their full potential. I think change is hard, so for teachers to adapt and make lessons using the board might be time consuming but I think it is worth it. Next we have our blogs, which provide a lot of opportunity for reflection. This tool has helped me self-assess and really evaluate work and articles. I think this would be a nice tool to have for older students (especially because I think blogging is trendy? maybe I don't really know but I think it's a thing).  The apps and applets we researched were awesome because we got to show each other lots of different ideas we have. I didn't think about games that other people in class did or some of the applets people chose that they made geared towards their domain. These were out of the box ideas I really liked.

I think it is important to have technology in our lessons and classrooms because this generation is very technology stimulating. At the rate technology is going, when used correctly, lessons can really be enriched.