Blog Post B

Concept number one is found in the paragraph titled: Critics of Technology in Schools. Teachers believe that because technology has taken such a long period of time to make its way into the classroom setting that once it is fully there, it will not do any good. I don’t agree with that statement. I know that I was the only student that was weary about technology uses in the classroom but since I started taking this class and reading about all the good it can do, my mind is changed. I think that teachers, new and old, will be surprised at how well their students improve once technology is actively used in classrooms. Children these days have all grown up in a technologically advanced world and they understand it better than most grown adults do. Technology is something that is never going to go away and it will improve the way students do their homework, projects, and even tests. The second concept I found important was entitled: Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. This chapter says that people who have grown up using technology in various ways are considered to be digital natives and people, like older teachers, are considered digital immigrants because they are not as advanced in the technology world as digital natives are. The paragraph tells the story of two undergraduates who were able to set up a tablet computer that they then delivered to a classroom. When they brought it in they told the teacher that it was ready for use and when the teacher asked where the instructions were they replied by telling the teacher that they left them behind. They said that they didn’t think anyone read the directions anymore and people would just turn on the machine and go through trials and errors until they figured out how to use it. In the paragraph titled: Lack of Access I found it interesting that in some classrooms they have interactive white boards and flat screen televisions and yet the school is claiming there is not enough money for them to warrant buying more computers for their students. If there are more computers in one classroom than another, that teacher will most likely be integrating technology into more of their lessons more often than teachers who only have a handful of computers in their classroom. Some teachers that do not have enough computers in their classroom will refrain from adding technology into their lessons for the purpose of students not being capable of practicing what they are being taught.