Digtal Blog Post # D - Chapter 5

     With technology being more and more popular in education now, it is important for 21st century teachers to know how to properly use technology inside their classrooms. Google offers a lot of tools that teachers are able to use in the classroom. For example, they can use Google to make groups where students can interact with each other as well as the teacher. Teachers can make their own blog so their students can keep up to date with the lessons and assignments the teacher assigns them.
   When using the internet, there is three ways to search the internet. The first one is free-text search which allows you to search for the title, keyword, and the description. Another way is called keyword/exact match search which it retrieves only the keyword or the exact match of your search. The last way to search the internet is Boolean search which uses the term AND, OR, and NOT to create more of a broad search.
   When you're evaluating a webpage it's very important to use these five criteria. 1.) Accuracy- you want to make sure the website provides a clear description of the site and the purposes. 2.) Authority- you want to make sure that the author has credibility and to see if it's commercial or not. 3.) Objectivity- determines if the website is fair and non biased. 4.) Currency- you want to make sure the website you are using is up-to-date with recent information and that the updated date is clearly noticeable. 5.) Coverage- you want to make sure the website has information on the site that is viewed without any difficulties.
   One important thing teachers need to teach students is what different URL's stand for. If you assign a student a research paper then you would want them to find their sources from reliable websites that end in .org/.edu and so on instead of .com. Websites that end in .com has a commercial purpose.Websites that end in .org is used by a nonprofit organization. Another very popular and familiar URL is .edu which are designates universities and colleges.
   I couldn't figure out how to embed my Kahoot quiz, so I attached the URL. Hope it works! It wasn't allowing me to insert the url. Have fun playing my little quiz.
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/8773e243-5fd5-4307-9c3c-bf842e965ffb
The video I have attached is a Kindergarten teach trying to encourage other teachers to use technology in here classroom. Using technology in the classroom gets the students to interactive with the lesson being taught. This teacher makes a very valid point about why technology is important in the classrooms today. I really admire when she said how the kids use technology at home, weather it be using the computer, to using their parents phones to watch videos, or playing a game on a device.
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.

Why You Should Use Technology In Your Classroom. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2015.