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In the article "How Teachers Integrate Technology and Their Beliefs about Learning:Is There a Connection?" Eugene Judson explains how the way a teacher teaches can be affected by weather they incorporate technology into their classroom or not. If a teacher does not see why technology should be included then they tend to teach more conservative where if a teacher were to teach with technology and agree with it they tend to be more constructive teachers. however much of this research is self submitted so the data is less accurate than observation data would be. In today's teaching administrators prefer teacher to teach with student input and the more teachers teacher constructively the more open to this concept they will be. We need students to be able to work with and use computers in their everyday life. their for we need teachers who are able and willing to incorporate technology into the classroom. With inclusion of technology we bring inclusion in society.
I chose this article because i was curious if technology changed the way teachers taught other than their material and curriculum. I have concluded from this article that technology has an effect on the way you think. Even though I may not realize this because i was raised with technology in my life. Using a computer when you are younger makes the way you think start to change you do not always think conservative but tend to question things and why they are. this is a good thing in this society and younger students need to be able to start utilizing the computers at a younger age.

www.eugene.judson @ asu.edu

PowerPoint

PowerPoint is something I have heard about a lot in the classroom as i grew up. Little did I know how much could be done with this simple tool. Not only can you make presentation, slide shows, and other neat and entertaining presentations but you can also but together books, make quizzes that flow nicely with the book telling what answer is right and wrong, and much more. PowerPoint is something I believe many teachers use in their classroom but not in as many ways as they should. Instead of just clicking page to page a teacher could make a book that the students could read and take home so they can study. There are so many ways to make pictures appear in different ways and with different sounds transitions, and such. Each page can look as though it is Floating or moving from one to another but with motion and smoothness.

Blogger

In class we discussed blogging and how to set a b log page up. I found this information extremely helpful and useful in a classroom. In the classroom students and teachers would be able to utilize the blog page for homework, assignments, or chats about what is going on in the classroom. The teacher could make one blog page with all of the students as administrators or give each student their own blog page. the blog page with everyone as an author would allow all of the students to put together ideas or experiences they had on a field trip or other activity they did or were a part of during class. Not only was blogging explained in class but the book we read also gave much information about how to blog. One way to incorporate a blog page into the classroom other than the above would be to allow students to add information about a specific history event they have done research on. Until they had one big historical page. Blogs can be edited so anything that was misleading would be able to be taken down. By having the blog be set to private other people would not be able to access the blog page.

Ebooks in the classroom

Ebooks in the classroom seem to be a great thing because they are much like books but have other features. One feature is that students would be able to read the books and have the words be highlighted as they read each one. This makes it easier for the student to see the word they are saying. Another is having the words light up as they are being read by someone else. this makes it easier for the teacher if they have more than one group doing work at the same time. My question is how will that affect the student when they go to read a text book or a book that is not available on the Internet? I believe that ebooks are great but that they should not be over used. If a teacher and or parent can moderate the use and make sure it is not getting abused or hurting the child's reading ability than they are wonderful. However like many other things such as educational games that are available on the Internet get abused. This is because students are not being watched closely enough.

Learning from Experience "B"

When I visited an elementary school I saw that there were five computers in the classroom. One was the teachers and the other four were the students. However all five were accessible by the students. The students were able to play educational games when they finished their desk work but were not allowed to advance past their grade level. The problem with that is that some of the students were past their grade level and some of the students were held back from the previous year. This means that the students who were able to do work beyond the first grade level were not given the opportunity. This made it evident to me that educational games are made to help so schools should not limit the ability of the student by not allowing them to think and mature to their full potential. Moreover, some of the students did not finish their work and went a head and played the games. The games are not the problem it is how they are handled in the classroom and when they are used.

I'm so excited to have a blog page.