What technology do I feel would benefit student's? Do you want me to be honest? I have no idea because I myself am having a hard time grasping this concept and learning from it. Personally, I've seen teachers attempt to use the smart board or even an over head projector and it always ends in the same outcome..
Teacher: Today, we're gonna use the smart board and i'm gonna have you guys come up here and answer some questions on it. Sound good?
Class: Yeah
teacher walks over to smart board...
twenty minutes later..
Teacher: well, i can't seem to get it to turn on, so we'll just have a study hall
So, you're going to have to forgive me if I haven't made up my mind if i think more technology should be in the classroom. However, since this is an assignment and I can't simply respond " I don't know." I think that first, ALL teacher's across the states should be more trained on the new technology and then, we should definitely use webcasting or skype. It allows the student and teacher to interact with each other and can give the classroom a "fun" feeling to it. With the Skype or webcasting, we would be able to talkt to other student's from around the world and learn more about them. Let's face it, a select few of us will actually go to China someday, so why not allow the student's to interact with someone from China and learn from them?
WOW. This is really a negative scenario. I hope in SEDU 183 you are learning to use various integrations with a positive experience. We too will be working with Smartboards later.
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