DLatham DQ8

Technology can actually assist with some of these expectations and make teachers—and their students—more successful. However, as the world becomes more complex—virtually year-to-year instead of the generation-to-generation pace of most of the last century—educational needs continue to shift from teaching and learning isolated skills and information within each content area, to teaching skills that enable students to solve complex problems across many areas. Educators must prepare for a technology-rich future and keep up with change by adopting effective strategies that infuse lessons with appropriate technologies. This makes a uthentic assessment needs even more important: Assessments must keep pace with effective instructional technology use. All this while educators at every level, but teachers especially, actively pursue professional development that enables a lifelong exploration of ways to enhance the teaching and learning of science and mathematics and support science and mathematics education reform.

Subject: DLatham DQ7

The Internet is becoming an increasingly vital tool in our information society. More Americans are going online to conduct such day-to-day activities as education, business transactions, personal correspondence, research and information-gathering, and job searches. Each year, being digitally connected becomes ever more critical to economic and educational advancement and community participation. Now that a large number of Americans regularly use the Internet to conduct daily activities, people who lack access to these tools are at a growing disadvantage.

Module 6

Although there are barriers involved in the integration of educational technology, however, computers and computer-related peripherals, have grown tremendously and have permeated all areas of our lives. It is incomprehensible that anyone today would argue that banks, hospitals, or any industry should use less technology. Most young people cannot understand arguments that schools should limit technology use. For them, use of the Internet, for example, plays a major role in their relationships with their friends, their families, and their schools. Teens and their parents generally think use of the Internet enhances the social life and academic work of teenagers. The Internet is becoming an increasingly vital tool in our information society. More Americans are going online to conduct such day-to-day activities as education, business transactions, personal correspondence, research and information-gathering, and job searches. Each year, being digitally connected becomes ever more critical to economic and educational advancement and community participation. Now that a large number of Americans regularly use the Internet to conduct daily activities, people who lack access to these tools are at a growing disadvantage. Therefore, raising the level of digital inclusion by increasing the number of Americans using the technology tools of the digital age is a vitally important national goal

Module 5

I have learned in this particular unit that more and more students access the Internet from school, school leaders are being asked to play a larger role in assuring that children have a positive experience when they go online and that they are viewing appropriate online learning resources. I honestly, think that these rules or guidelines should be structured and implemented soon..

Module 4

Essentially, I learned that using digital forms throughout a school would be great for data collection and identifying trends quicker. Students can fill out a digital form in the office, which the administration can see immediately to identify the flow of student traffic in and out of school. Instead of a suggestion box, it could be a form that the students fill out.

Module 3

I learned that as more students use computers to prepare a wide range of assessments it can seem somewhat pointless to print documents when instructors and students have the skills and access to IT hardware to receive, review, edit and exchange documents. While the benefits may extend beyond the significant one of saving paper, before this method becomes practical and accepted there are many hurdles to overcome. Students may have to go thru a process of computer literate training so that they may utilize the sofware and other classroom technological advances to their advantage..

Module 2

I learned that Technology can be used to perpetuate old models of teaching and learning. Students can be "plugged into computers" to do drill and practice that is not so different from workbooks. Teachers can use multimedia technology to give more colorful, stimulating lectures. Both of these have their place, but such use does not begin to tap the power of these new tools. Technology is also ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential tech offers for teaching and learning. Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills they need to survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy.

Module 1

In module 1, I began to grasp the value of integrating technology into education. I began to think of new and diverse ways of incorperating student-directed activities into my daily lesson plan. This assignment has given me the motivation and the resources to pursue this liberalistic ye effective strategy in my classroom