Technology+Integration

This is a review of a video about integrating technology and my personal goals for integrating technology. I found this video to be useful and the essay gave me a way to express myself in regard to it.  I plan to use this sort of integration, where students teach each other, in my own classroom.



In “[|Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts],” the instructor and students use technology to learn. Plenty of times the teacher isn’t sure how to do something on the computer, but she doesn’t worry about it. Her goal is to teach the students to think for themselves, which includes researching topics themselves to better understand how to complete a project. When the project is complete, groups of students teach the rest of the class how to do what they learned. This is a great concept. I’ve seen this sort of method used in classes before, but the way the project was designed and what technology was available made the lesson dry and no one ended up paying attention other than the teacher.

The point of technology is to make life easier. The importance of integrating technology is to be able to connect with the tech savvy children of the coming generations. So many kids are super engrossed in technology and find life dull and slow without it. I plan to use technology to make lessons more active and faster. I also hope to be able to properly address each child’s needs regarding the lesson. If they don’t get it right away, I want to have something that can analyze what connecter is missing.

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