Digital Blog Post #L -Chapter 12

      Technology is everywhere we look. Kids nowadays have it so much easier with all this technology they can use for educational purposes. With becoming a 21st century teacher, you want to have technology inside your classroom. Kids are more fascinated and become more involved when technology is involved. There is many different educational websites and as along with technology that works best inside the classroom. Using technology inside the classroom involves methods on how to introduce technology to your students.

    When you begin to introduce technology inside your classroom, there are stages to do so. These stages of technology integration are divided into five stages The first stage is entry stage. In this stage, you begin to learn about information technologies. Stage two is adoption. In this stage, you will "blend technology" inside of your classroom without making any significant changes to putting technology inside your classroom. Stage three is adaptation. In this stage, you will fully integrate "new technologies into traditional classroom practices".You will now begin to use technology everyday in your classroom. Stage four is appropriation. In this stage, You will be able to use technology easily and confidently inside your classroom and as well as your professional work. Stage five is invention. In this final stage, you will begin to experiment with many instructional patterns and ways relating to students. Once when you made it to the final stage, you will be able to determine the best form of technology to use inside your classroom to engage your students with learning.

   When using one-to-one laptop computing (every student has their own computing device to use in school) inside your classroom, it's important to understand the three interconnected development. The first one is new machines. Technology is booming like crazy and many companies keep coming out with new and improved technology. The second one is to use in higher education. Many higher education require you to know the basic of using laptop computing devices.Finally, the third one is research studies. Research shows that laptops positively affect student learning. Laptops are a key factor in learning because they are portable and easy to use anywhere.


   Alan November who is a technology educated came up with two ways to be able to distinguished between people using technology to automate or informate everyday activities. Automating is when someone uses technology daily in their everyday life. Most people nowadays use a form of technology everyday, it could be from your phone, tv, to car. Informating is when technology changes an activity by fundamentally redesigning and refining it. This stage would be if an older person was just introduced to technology.

    The following video is from The Ellen Show. It's pretty cute and funny how she introduces the first technology to these kids. They had no idea what any of them was, expect for the phone and they said it was over 100 years old. Kids nowadays probably have no idea what a house phone was or what even dial-up was. I hope you enjoy this video as well! It made me laugh!


 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.
• Ellen Introduces Kids to the Technology of Yesterday. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2015,