Thursday, October 25, 2007

# How can you effectively integrate technology into your teaching and learning?

Like I said before, I feel like I have learned so much about integrating technology into the classroom. I now know how to effectively use technology as hooks (whether it be a youtube video, a powerpoint game, or a smartboard challenge), how to incorporate wiki's and blogs into virtually any and all lessons, and that technology is my friend, not my enemy. I also learned the difference between Type I and Type II usage of technology in the classroom, which made a huge impact for me. I think having someone very obviously point out to me that simply using word to type up notes doesn't count as using technology effectively in the classroom.

Since I had a lot of moments where I felt I learnt a lot, I suppose I'll pick my favorite.I loved the ebooks group presentation. Watching that video really peaked my curiosity about the subject and made me understand a little bit more about ebooks at the college level.

Honestly, there really wasn't anything in this section that I knew much about, it was all new to me. My experience with technology in the classroom was word processing to type and Internet to research.

If I use technology in my classroom daily, will the novelty wear off?

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