Will I use technology in my classroom?
Starting off this semester my answer would have been a very hesitant 'yes'. I was not incredibly confident in my use with technology and was nervous at the vulnerability it would leave me in the classroom. Let's be honest... we have ALL been those students starting at the clock ticking while the Professor tries their hardest to get their technology to work. It just seemed plain embarrassing to me.
What I have learned throughout this semester in my teaching program about technology is that although it comes with hindering faults, it also comes with an immense power to change the culture of your classroom and more effectively involve student learning! Yes... there may be those times where it fails to work with you but what matters is that technology involves both student and teacher learning into the future of education.
Technology is not going away. I will effectively use technology in my classroom to check for student's understanding, create web quests that allow for both a tangible classroom approach and one that involves technology, and finally I will make sure that I could teach the students to effectively carry the technology learned in my classroom out into their other classes and into the real world.
Being a student I love to learn! And this love for learning will not end just because the student is now turning into the teacher, I believe that I will continue learning new things about technology and as it develops be learning more fully how to use it in my classroom.
My teaching technology philosophy goes as follows...
Technology in the classroom is a way in which students can supplement modern thinking and effective problem solving in the classroom. It will be used in order to gain and check for understanding, and will able to be applied not only in classes outside of Miss Willis' but in the real world as well.
My concluding question to those hesitant about using technology in their classroom is this... wouldn't you want to have EVERY available resource at your disposal to lead to the success of your students?
