technology in our classrooms

In our classrooms today our students use many different types of technology. Students are exposed to many different types of technology at home, by the time that our students come into our classrooms they can become board with how the technology is presented to them. Teachers need to have new and different ways to introduce technology to our students in order to keep them interested to what is being taught to them. In the 5th grade class that I worked in last semester, the teacher that I worked with was amazing at having his students use technology in different ways, he used the computer for the students to talk back and forth to each other, he had them write songs and burn them to a disk, he had them look up different types of things from their lesson, he also had them write a classroom class paper. His students loved and enjoyed the different ways that their teacher used the technology. It is important to know how to use technology in order to teach our students how to learn and be able to grow from the technology that we teach them.

Some of the tools that are used in the classroom are essential for the learning and comprehension of the students. In my opinion some of the most important tools that can be used in the classroom are the whiteboard, the overhead projector, the computer, a desk, pencil, an eraser, and scissors, even the teacher and the students themselves are an important tool for the other students to learn from. Of these I think that the most important tool would be the pencil and the eraser. The pencil is important because at the beginning of their life it helps the child build the necessary fine motor skills that a child will continue to use through out all of their lives. It also is a tool that helps to teach the student a another way of learning their letters. Most students need to have more then one way of learning, to read and then to write sets this act in stone. A pencil is also an important way for a teacher to convey thoughts to their students. With an eraser it is defiantly important for the student to know that they can make mistakes and it can be fixed. Everyone in the world makes mistakes and it is difficult for a child to realize that it is ok to make mistakes as long as they learn, erase, and try again.
Metaphorically speaking the pencil is a great way for a teacher no not set things in stone along with the eraser it makes it possible to be flexible in planning. Planning for the lesson that needs to be taught or even what is going to happen in the day. I think that it is necessary to have a schedule but with children it is necessary to also know that there is a time that a teacher needs to be flexible for their students, if a teacher isn’t flexible in the teaching of their students they could start to feel frustrated with the students that they are trying to teach.
The second tool that is very important to the classroom is the students themselves. In the classroom setting a teacher teaches a concept to the students, but in the classroom I think that the students learning from each other is one of the most important thing that a student will learn during their school carrier. Students learn a completely different lesson from each other then they do from the teacher. Socially they learn how to interact with each other, this helps them throughout their lives with their future jobs, family, or friends. Educationally when working in groups it is proven that if a student teaches a concept to another student that they not only learn it better but that they remember it better as well. Students helping each other is an essential and crucial part of a students life in school.
It is interesting to think about the different tools that a student uses in the classroom and how important those tools are to them. I also think that it is interesting to realize, in my point of view, that although we have new and amazing advances in technology it is important to remember that the fundamentals of learning are still important and shouldn’t be left out when teaching our student to learn.

Microsoft word is needed so that we can write documents for the children that are neat and organized.
The two videos for this week were very interesting. I think that it is important to reflect on the amount of people that use the Internet and how it has changed the world around us.
It is also important to understand that we as college students are not alone, we all buy books that are to expensive and we all learn things that we will not use in our daily lives outside of our college carrier. The need to know the numbers is important, without knowing how much technology is changing the way we live, some might think that it isn't worth the effort to continue our pursuit of technology.