Final: Reflective Post

    This education class has been the best one I've taken. I learned so many forms of technology to use inside of my classroom when I become a teacher. The new technology for education allows students to enhance their learning experience. With technology, students are more eager to learn then before without technology.
    The textbook for this course was very interesting and very easy to understand.I enjoyed the lesson plans at the end of each chapter. It provided tons of examples of technology use inside classrooms. 
   The discussions for this class allowed me to see what my classmates thought about the certain topic that was assigned. I really enjoyed the activities, such as making a lesson plan with a group, Wikispace, and webquest. While I was doing these assignments, it made me excited to become a teacher. I learned so much from these two assignments and I know I will be able to succeed using webquest and Wikispace in my very own classroom one day. The lesson plan helped me understand and know the basic guidelines needed to make a lesson plan. This will come in handy since lesson plans are a must. 
   When creating a Webquest, you want to make sure you complete the following: Stage setting, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion. You want to have these steps so you can succeed for student learning essential Internet literacy skills of information retrieval and analysis.
Wikispace is a blog site that is collaboratively edited and maintained by a group of people. Wikispace allows students and teachers to: use technology to meaningful ways in the classroom, collaborate with peers and colleagues, synthesize and explain with content they are learning through written expression and different forms of multimedia expression, publish their writing and other creative or science work, and receive feedback about their learning both inside and outside the classroom.
   Both of these sites are excellent ways to bring technology inside your classroom and sharing this experience with the students. Who knows the next form of technology they will invent for teaching...

The following video is about how teaching has changed over the last forty years with technology. It's crazy to see how fast technology has been involved and improved learning for students within these last forty years.





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.

 How Has Teaching Changed? (n.d.). Retrieved December 8, 2015,