Journal Entry 4: Integrating technology and creating change

How can teachers create change in the classrooms using technology?

In a classroom what the teacher wants the most is to inspire creativity and sprout knowledge into their students minds. When I was in elementary school the third grade, my teacher would let us do this cool activity where we would use shaving cream and we would put it all over our desk. As we would spread the shaving cream she would ask us questions and we would have to write the answer within the shaving cream. Although my story has nothing to do with technology, she used something so small such as shaving cream to inspire our imaginations and help us remember what we learned. The new student generation of this era has so much knowledge with technology that we must incorporate such valuable assets as computers, ipads, and itouches. Instead of writing presentations on paper show them a new way they can develop their skills using a computer and or portable laptops.

The tech tool that caught my attention was Edutopia it provides with a lot of information having to do with helping teachers how to integrate technology into their classrooms.

Edutopia: information and inspiration for innovative teaching in K-12 schools, a website from the George Lucas Educational Foundation, features a fine collection of technology integration resources. You can find information under the priority topics menu.

Summary

This chapter was based on how teachers need to learn certain skills in order to be able to use technology in their classrooms. Teachers need to go through five steps, Entry, adoption, adaptation, appropriation, and invention. This chapter wants us to slowly incorporate technology to see what changes it can bring about within the students also it lets us know that we shouldn’t involve a lot of technology but only the necessary that way it does not over power the classroom.