Digital Blog Post # I- Chapter 4

Technology is a major thing that is used in classrooms today. With us being in the 21 century, it's important to engage our students with technology because it's around us everywhere we go. No matter if you're in the car, at a store, school, or at home, we can't get away fro technology. Now there are teachers out there that prefer not to use technology inside of their classroom, but what good does that do with the students learning? It doesn't because students are so aware of technology and how it's used today.
When you're coming out with you teaching goals, methods, and procedures on how to teach your students, you want to use technology. You can use technology in so many different ways. When you develop a lesson plan you can use the following to help engage your students into the lesson being taught. Any presentation software (such as Prezi), a flowchart-making tools (it gives students ways to visual see a lesson),blogs (a way for teachers and students to communicate), and interactive software's (ABC mouse, BrainPop). These are just a few ways to use inside the classroom.
With teaching, you must use a form of way to be able to give the students learning assessments based on what students have learned from your lesson that you taught. You can do this is numerous ways with technology. You can use electronic tests and quizzes (allows students to take test on a device, such a Ipad, phones, and computers.), gradekeeping software (to keep tract of student grades), online surveys (allows students to take part of a survey so the teacher knows what they learned and what they didn't learn), and learning performance rubrics (lets the students know how well they did.)
Once when you have a lesson plan developed, you want to create objectives so the students know a brief summery of what the lesson is all about and what they should expect. In your lesson plan, you want to be able to answer five questions. The questions are the following: Who does the lesson plan involve, what is the lesson plan going to do, when will this lesson plan how and how long, how often and how much will this lesson plan benefit students, and how will the lesson plan be measured or evaluated based on the students.
The following is my Prezi I created to give a brief summary of what I just explained above. I hope you enjoy! I'm still learning how to use Prezi!
Below my Prezi is a video I attached that actually shows how technology does make an impact on students today in the classroom and at home. Technology allows students to do homework or assignments right at home and not having to worry about forgetting things at school or even losing homework or the assignments.




Sources:

• Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
•  Educational Technology in the Classroom. (n.d.). Retrieved November 1, 2015.