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.