After the first class I can say that I am very excitied about the class, my week was pretty intense I had alot of homework from my other classes including this one but everything is coming together nicely. It toke me awhile to get this blog up and running but now I have my first blog.
In Chapter one it discussed how technology was a huge influence amoung children, I in my own experience can contest to this when I was younger we did not have cell phones or Ipads now their are so many ways for people to communicate with one another and their are so many ways to access information because of all the new technology that exists today. Children are being born into all these new inventions and I believe that it is imporant that teachers beome technologically advanced inorder to keep up with their students because technology is all around them and in their homes. I think by the teacher becoming up to date with technology it can be used as a way to get her students to become more engaged because its something that they can relate to.
Questions:
1. Do you think in order to be a great teacher you must be very advanced in technology or could you be a great teacher and just know the basics.
2. Do you think it is a good idea for children to be online between the ages of 5-8
I agree. I believe in the video, they referred to this as the "growing up online" generation? Since children are being exposed to this new technology at such a young age, I also agree that we, as current and future educators, should try to keep up with the new technology as much as possible. If we don't include technology in our lesson plans, and the children use it all the time, I can see them having a difficult time paying attention. I agree that the students will be more engaged if the teacher is caught up with technology.
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