Today, I write about the technologies that I will be using in the classroom; tomorrow I will be using these technologies because I will be volunteering to go to Lesher Middle School because I enjoyed working with the students there so much that I wanted an extra day with them (where I am not constantly worrying about the next class and grade that I will be receiving therein. I believe that technology in the classroom is an integral part of becoming a teacher in the 21st century. What we consider to be "technology" today may be considered "necessary" tomorrow, and who knows, our literature within the foreseeable future (before I am gone) may be completely technology-based and no longer require print-form.
I can see myself using the technologies that I learned in my Tech for the Classroom class, however there are a few technologies which I picked up, that I would like to say beat out all the rest. One of them being the use of Pixton, Socrative, and other technologies which allow students to write their own material online and share it with their peers. Socrative allows for students to quiz themselves on material for tests coming up, and has helped me in many classes where memorization was key. Pixton allows for students to create a comic for their own use and share it with their peers based on the lessons/narrative we are writing in class.
Limitations should only include those which are set by the school you work for, not your ingenuity, and should also include unforeseeable circumstances such as the weather or Wi-fi signal.
I plan on conversing with my students to allow myself room to grow using technologies, and if students have feedback about a unit, I would like to hear their take on which technologies are better for what I am doing than the ones which are currently being used. I will also share these with other teachers to see if they are appropriate for others to use in their classroom, because it isn't about being the best teacher in a school, it is about being the best school for a child.
I hope that I will continue to grow alongside my peers, those students who have taken this class with me, and that we will make the future as bright as possible for the students who are leaving our care and going out into the world to find jobs and succeed in school much as we have and our parents did before us.
This will not be the last blog post here, but rather it is a good segue into what I will be writing about in my professional life. Please stick with me as I try to blog about what it is to be a substitute teacher, what it is to be a new teacher, and what it is to be an experienced teacher.
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