Kelly O’Neill
T&L 466.01
November 13, 2006
Emerging Technology Project
Technology in the classroom has come a long way since even I was in high school four years ago. Technology in education has made a huge impact on what is accessible to students. Students can access the internet for research and then use power points to show a presentation. Teachers can use video and power points to present material as well as email to communicate with students outside of the classroom. New technology comes out all the time and may eventually impact the future of classrooms. Technology that I see having a large impact on my future classrooms are Interactive Smart boards, Apple learning mobile labs, and.
The interactive Smart board is a projected white board. With this board teachers can write notes that can be saved for later use. With a projector screen teachers can pull up notes or web pages from their computers to be projected on the whiteboard screen. This would be a useful tool for teachers to use if they are giving a lecture that they want to show notes and then a website. This would allow for the teachers to switch back and forth between technologies very easily. (Smarttech.com)
The Apple learning mobile lab is something that many of use have used in this class for our digital media projects. The mobile lab is cart that contains many Mac laptops convenient for student use. The piece of technology would help my future classes by enabling all students to have access to a computer. Having all my students have access to computers and internet in the classroom will be helpful when doing research or writing papers. (apple.com)
A third piece of emerging technology that will be useful in the classroom are E-books. E-books will allow students to read text books online instead of carrying the book back and forth between home and the classroom. Combined with the Apple mobile lab students would be able to access the book from their desks on the laptop.
The interactive Smart board would help engage students during lectures. Instead of just lecturing the teacher shows websites or concept maps while also using white board markers to highlight things on the page. The Apple learning mobile lab will help students learning to use and understand technology that they will possibly use in the future. E-books will impact students become more interactive and engaged with reading the text book. E-books will have interactive activities such as quizzes or links to other web pages that will be engaging to students.
Technology is the future of education, whether it is more computer use, online books, or projector whiteboards. Using technology in the classroom will help teachers be better prepared for lessons and create new ways to introduce or discuss material to students. Technology will benefit the students by creating more interactive activities and engaging material, rather then just listen to the teacher lecture or reading an overhead full of notes.
Work cited
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Boards/
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/mobilelabs/index.html
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2 comments:
Good job on your emerging technology report. I liked how you related the e-books back to the classroom to allow students to not buy expensive books for their personal use.
I also liked how you reported on the mobile cart of computers. I feel that having a cart with laptop computers will allow students to have a better understanding of sources on the internet and will allow students to complete science and book reports in the classroom.
Jacob Briggs
Kelly,
Your idea of using the Interactive SmartBoard is a great way of integrating technology into your classroom. I think that by using the SmartBoard in your future classrooms you will be able to provide a wide range of information and tasks to your students for learning. Also, the idea of using the Apple comuputers gives students an opportunity to become more familiar with technology. Great analysis!
-Marcus Logue
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