Week Thirteen: The Future of Technology within Education

I read an article titled The Classroom of the Future. I found it very interesting. It says what I feel like a broken record for saying: technology is what our children are breathing.

It was pretty vague in what it actually had to say other than that to understand the students of the future and to be able to connect to them we will have to be able to understand, use, and teach with technology.

Technology is changing so swiftly that it would be impossible for anyone to keep up, but as long as we know that and are willing to continue learning, I think that we will be able to manage fairly well.

After all, part of the desire to teach is a love and hunger to learn, is it not?

Week Ten: Read and Comment on a Class Blog

I'm not sure that it will come through before class, but I commented on Mrs. Ida's Blog.

Mrs. Ida's blog has a lot of resources and some really cool posts. I picked this one to comment on because I really connected to it. I like the idea of having students present their material this way. It's kind of like Prof. Adair's students research projects that they are allowed to create and present as additional content. It allows the students to learn about something that is interesting to them and then teach it! And I personally believe that that is the best way to learn -- to teach.

Mrs. Ida's post didn't really discuss the idea, she just put it out there. I contributed by expanding on it and, hopefully, providing a different view on it than maybe she had thought of at first.

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I found another blog that I really like! This one is from a school in the Wenatchee School District where I hope to end up. The teacher has a lot of information on her blog regarding the weekly happenings of the class, assignments, and other events that happen--planned or not. I commented a post that tells how the class was reading a story to learn about royalty and created a poster of a dragon to remind themselves to be respectful and polite--no whining!

Week One: Beginning of Semester Reflection

I have known since I was a child that I wanted to teach others. I enjoy teaching; I am good at teaching.It’s something that is engrained in me and that I know I was created to do. Teaching others requires patience, organization, modeling, quick thinking, empathy, and so many other things. I believe that I am those things, or at least that I possess a fair amount of each of those things. That is why I want to be a teacher.

I want to teach fourth grade. From my experience, that is a great age. I am still bigger than the students (most of them anyway) yet they are old enough to be able to have a more intellectual conversation with you. It’s not only about Barney or trash cans as many of my best friend’s stories surround (she’s a pre-school and second grade teacher). I had a really amazing fourth grade year and I think that that is a large reason for why I want to teach this grade. I like grades three, four, and five, but four would be my current preference.

I am really excited about this class; it has been one that I have looked forward to for a while. I am pretty good at figuring out technology, but being in a class designed to teach me all of these cool things is really exciting. I am excited to learn how to integrate technology into every subject. I am excited to grow and be challenged by technology.