What are your beliefs about teaching and learning with technology?
Technology offers students and teacher another medium with which to communicate. Sometimes technology creates problems if there are glitches or incompatibility issues. In schools that service lower income students, the classroom might be the only place they have access to the internet and word processing programs. On a broader scale, technology offers students a gateway to art, culture, and knowledge on an immediate and almost endless basis.
Describe how technology has supported learning in classrooms you have observed
I have taken several classes that require a presentation type project at the end of the semester. Most students know how to and often use power point presentations for these projects. In one class a group of students made a MySpace page for a character from literature. They had their character post notes and fill out the about me section. I thought this was a relevant way to bring a literary character into the 21st century that would appeal to middle and high school students.
Love the mySpace example. This is exactly the engagement factor that our students will need.
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