Alex contributed this positive experience:
I have always found ways to use technology to help my educational experience...or at least tired to. Sometimes this would turn into a "waste" of time and would have to settle for a traditional way on paper or some other way. Although I do not consider this wasting in the big picture because over the years because of this I have become very fluent in getting around with computers and how they work. Shortcuts, new features, and old ones I can incorporate into everyday things such as web browsing or writing a paper. I am finding ways for technology to assist my learning in and out of the classroom. I can use my iPod touch, computer, or cellphone for a calculator, to graph, search the internet, and communicate. I can use landscaping applications to help run my landscaping business more effiencently or touch up on my math skills with games or learn the streets of Towson by looking at maps.
Ashley contributed this positive experience also:
I am earning my Masters now in instructional technology with a focus in School Library Media, and so far my experiences with technologies has grown mostly postitive. A lot of programs I was unfamiliar with about a year ago, I have been taught. The professors have really gone out of their way to ensure we learned these programs and understood. this. This is exspecially true of dreamweaver, wiki, and in my case lended some experiences with permaboards and clickers.
Hilary contributed this negative experience:
Technology and learning experiences have never really been that great for me; either I've been in really boring computer classes, or I can't understand what I'm supposed to be doing. I like computers when they do what I want them to do, but all to often I find myself struggling to figure out how to use a program. It's very frustrating to know that there is a right way to do something, in fact probably an easy way to do it, but you can't figure out what that might be. Also, in my internships in elementary school classrooms, I've had some trouble with non functioning technology. While it taught me to always have a backup lessons plan, in case things don't work they way you want them too, it was stressful and embarrassing at the time. As a teacher, it's not fun to look incompetent in front of students.
Michelle contributed this negative experience also:
However, sometime technology can be very frustrating. Like when my computer crashes when I'm in the middle of writing a paper. Or when my cell phone runs out of batteries.
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I can relate to Hilary's negative experience with technology. I also often struggle with computers and have been in the situation where technology has not worked when I needed it to. They can be very helpful I agree, but often I have encountered teachers that are teaching technology and assume everyone knows how to use everything thus they do not take the time to properly explain.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher it is important to help your students view technology as a helpful resource as opposed to a stressful hindrance. In order to do this it is important, as a teacher, to model proper use of technolgoy in order to eliminate confusion. It is also very important to always have a backup for lessons that involve technology. Technology is not always reliable and as a teacher, one must be able to be flexible and adjust quickly. I would have improved the situation described by doing these things for my students. It is hard as a student to not understand something and feel completely lost and I hope none of my students ever feel that way.
Comment is above...Brooke Bradley
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate to feeling lost in computer classes that move so fast, and teachers that assume everyone knows how to do something. Feeling frustrated and incompetent is not fun, nor is it condusive to real learning.
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