As anyone who has ever read this blog (all one of you) may attest I do not know ANYTHING about technology. Needless to say there is most definitely room for improvement in that area of my future classroom. I really should not say I do not know anything, but technology is something that I see and understand that it is extremely beneficial in classrooms but also something that I tend to shy away from because I do not feel entirely comfortable with it.
However, there is one area that I would really like to work on and become familiar with so that I can use it in my future classroom, that would be to learn to apply technology to assess and evaluate my students. Students get bored with the written exams and paper work everyday. I feel that being able to incorporate technology into their assessments presents it in a new, fun, and exciting way. In the article, Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum it states that technology is allowing teachers to reach their students in a way that they have not been able to before. In the article The New WWW it states that technology is amazing for students because it is available whenever, wherever, and whatever.
Students are going to be using technology one way or another so we as educators may as well learn to embrace it and show them the proper and most efficient ways to use it to their advantage.
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