Thursday, 18 September 2014

First Blog Entry

My goals for this course is to learn all the different kinds of technology elementary schools have to offer. In my first year, my placement was in a kindergarten classroom and I saw the many different ways technology was used in the classroom for their learning. It inspired myself, as a future teacher that technology is an excellent way to help teach students learn.

Through elementary I had little experience with technology when it came to my learning. As I progressed through junior high and high school technology was increased in my classrooms. Mostly, it was just school computers that I used. I wished there was more technology used in my classrooms as I think it would of helped with my learning, especially now that I see whiteboards in almost all classrooms.

The "burning" question I would like to research and know more about is "how has technology changed the way students learn?" In more detail whiteboards are used in many classrooms to help students learn and understand. Since I am minoring in math, whiteboards are an excellent way to help teach students learn as students seem to learn more visually.