A Role of Technology Blog

It is funny every time I see the word, technology, I always chuckle and think of Kip from Napoleon Dynamite.  With the role of technology becoming more and more integrated into our everyday lives, especially digital technology, as future teachers we need to open our minds and be able to incorporate new ideas every day where teaching students is concerned.


The tools that I would use would vary, such as computers in the classroom.  Most students now have access to a computer at home, so the idea of a podcast to give an assignment or actually put a lecture on podcast and have the student do feedback on it would be an excellent tool.  Students could ineract in many ways, like we have learned this semester such as Twitter, the podcast idea, SMS e-mails and Google and it's various tools.


The skills that are necessary, most students have them and  know how to use them now.  How these skills are learned are usually at home, but this would give us as teachers a great opportunity to teach a student to download a podcast, to answer an online quiz or to truely be able to have a virtual classroom, where both the student and the teacher can interact with each other.  If the technology is used right, then it will capture and inspire a student to learn better.  Myself as "old school", thought I would never be able to use a online math program to learn.  I have always been bad at math, and thought I would have to have a teacher in a classical classroom setting for this to work for me.  I found out that I could do better with this math program and learn better comprehension skills.  So the tools are there to make it work to our, the students advantage if we get through the barriers of instituting new ideas.


Promoting and furthering digitial learning, is one that will be a constant challenge for the teachers and students to adapt to.  In learning the new techniques, we can overcome old ways and seek to use new ideas for better learning.  We can promote digital citizenship along with regular learning in a blend that will succeed.  Parents are a crucial key to this, and they also have to defend and support these new ideas so that their children will succeed in life and in the knowledge that they can pass on to future generations.

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Embedding the Playlist with an Introduction

This is really a cool feature. I am now going to embed my playlist that I made for class. This is going to be a new adventure for me and see if it works!

Embedding YouTube Videos on our blogs

In class today we learned how to embed YouTube videos in our blog.  It was really interesting and here are the videos I chose:






I guess I am learning things to do on this "infernal contraption"!