Inquiry Question

This project took a long time, but I enjoyed learning about a real question that I was curious about. I spent a long time looking for resources that related to my question. Unfortunately, I felt as though more of my informal resources were helpful that my formal ones. I believe that this was a very beneficial assignment. It tested our skills in many ways. It pressed us to show our researching skills, our ability to work a new program, our patience when the web page wouldn't let me un-underline something or create a space between paragraphs, and our ability to synthesize new information to answer a question about technology. I believe that I am a horrible speaker no matter is someone is watching or not so I hope that my screen cast doesn't sound too terrible but I tried to summarize as best as I could with out reading directly from the script.

Ch. 10!!!

This chapter does a great job of tying in all that we have learned about technology. Overall it focuses on the idea that technology is causing us to rethink everything from “ how kids learn” to “ rethinking careers”. Life long learning takes place everyday in both the classroom and outside of the classroom. It is the job of the teacher to motivate and encourage students. Motivation is key and technology is a way of both meeting their interests as well as keeping students motivated. This in return will keep the students more engaged in learning. Technology is changing the way we do everything. It’s changing they way kids learn, changing what should be learned, and how it should be taught. As a teacher I intend to keep up with the new age of technology as much as possible so to provide my students with the more beneficial atmosphere. This era proves that teachers need to find ways to motivate and excite children about learning. This can only be done by keeping up with the times and catering to children interests. Doing this is not entirely too difficult it's just a matter of want in the teacher.

Ch. 9

What does it all mean? Well as the first quote states, “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. I believe that this does a great way of explaining a lot of what we have talked about in class this semester. It explains simply and perfectly exactly what the debate of technology is today in our schools. It explains how technology is being integrated in to our schools but inefficiently. It is being done at an uneven pace. Along with this, because there is a great debate over the pros and cons of technology, teachers and school boards are also hesitant to integrate more of it into our schools. It is true that we cannot force technology into classrooms immediately, but steady exposure and implementation of different small types can continue schools to be on their way of transitioning into this new age of technology. Not all schools are even able to afford this new technology. This is when it becomes a threat to socialization. As a teacher I will try to insure that I note the fact that when introducing children to new technologies, that not all of them are familiar with them. I will be sure to teach them how to safely use and understand these new devices as well as strive to provide extra opportunities for interaction with the technologies for children who are less familiar and whom do not also have contact with them in their homes.