Chapter 4

Focus Question: How does technology promote educational change?

     Change is something that we all have to accept at point in our lives and also accept that the use of technology is growing everyday. All of us have to stay on top of technology in order for us to evolve in a better future. Change is not with the hardware, it's not in the computer; Change is within the person who wants to influence, guide, and decide that technology impacts many lives everyday. Change helps us decide who we are, and technology is a powerful tool to help raise our belief level on education. Technology reasures us of a secure education for all who wants to learn it. Technology makes our situations become very simple, including classrooms. The potential change of technology helps guide teachers and students with the needs and the imagination to realize their dreams and goals, especially, their main priorities. There are educational tools for teachers to help them choose one technology tool over another, such as "automate" and "infomate", "type 1 and type 11 technology apps", and "Learning from, about, and with computers."

Tech Tool link: Edutopia
     This website is so cool! I love how this site makes available all of the resouces you need to have an amazing classroom experiecnce. So many ideas and so many activities to talk about. Edutopia provides video of the week with educational advice and information, group discussions, education news, opinions, and school freebies. You can even "discover successful schools and strategies across the country- using their best practices, training materials, and rubrics! This is awesome, it makes a new teacher's life a bit easier. It puts me at ease."I highly recommend this site.
Source: http://www.edutopia.org/

Summary and Connection:
     This chapter on Integrating Technology and Creating Change is overwhelming- considering that almost all the issues relate to change and using technology in many different ways in the classroom. So many interesting links and tools about technology i have never even heard about. How the chapter talks about the digital pen, a wrtiting device that records what someone has written or spoken so it can be accessed on a computer that converts content into typed text to be copied, emailed, printed, and edited. (Tranforming Learning with New Technologies, pg. 103) The expections to learn technology in the classroom are so high, that im very exitied about this new change in education and hoping it will help us grow for the better.