Week 7 readings

Technology education is an important issue to today's children. As a teacher, it's our responsibility to prepare our children for the real world which is the digital world; especially in the subjects of math and science. Technology is now changing from year to year instead of generating to generation. As technology changes, teachers need to be aware of what is out there that could be useful in that classroom. Then teachers need to be retaught on how to correctly use technology to teach today's children. Teachers that are actively using technology in the classroom may not be teaching technology in the correct way that is effective to today's children. I feel that it may be my job as a student in educational technology to educate my fellow teaching peers how to correctly use technology in the classroom and to realize what is really out their that can help them in all subjects especially in math and science. As a teacher its really hard to keep up with it. If I was not in this technology class at ASU West, I would have never known what Web 2.0 was even about. To be honest with you, as a teacher it is hard to keep up with this digital world without the correct technology materials. Technology is becoming more and more so important, but my district has not realized this. We still have classrooms that only have one or two computers. We have one lab that we need to share with a over populated school. The Special Ed classrooms are the only rooms that have smart boards. The library has a smart board, but without the right training many teachers have no clue on how to use it and the advantages that it has to provide for teachers. The school has about five projectors that we have to share, but our school really needs to provide projectors in every classroom to help the ELL students process words and its meanings. With projectors in every room, teachers could pull up poems instead of taking the class to the library and "hoping" to find the right poem. There are so much a teacher can do with the proper eduction on computers and what's out their on the web to help them in the classroom. Everytime I get on and simply google Web 2.0, I am amazed at what I find that I can use in the classroom simply with the use of a projector. I am waiting for the day that paper and pencil will be not a usual working method, instead we will be asking students to pull out their laptops to take notes on Inspiration or Kidspiration. W