Why intergrate techonolgy into the classrooms?

By having technology touching almost every aspect of our lives, schools need to be up to date on the technology and let students use it in the classrooms, for school purposes. By having students use technology it would teach them life skills to assist them in a complex world. Intergrating techonolgy into the classroom curriculum it must support the four key points of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts. Technology intergration is effectively achieved when the use of the technology is routine, transparent, and when they technology supports curricular goals.

I believe that we should try and effectively intergrate technology into the school curriculum, it would help th future generations tramendously. Letting the students have technology in the classroom could help them learn subjects in a fun way, you can incorporate games and many lesson plans to help studnets learn in many fun and creative ways.


http://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration-introduction

School-Based Cyberbullying Interventions (Bullying with technology)

Technology isn't just used for researching in the classrooms or during classtime. Students are living in a world where cyberbullying is a growning trend amoung all aged children, many children have been on the news either telling their story of how they got the bullying to stop or they have taken their own lives, so their families reach out to society to help stop this horrible act from continuing.

Although teachers want to incorperate technology in the classrooms, yes they say no cell phones, but students always try to get away with having them; therefore having the cell phones is how they are using the technology during school hours to continue this horrible act and not even on the internet at that point it could be through text messages. In this article it states 20-35% of children and adolescents report experiencing cyberbullying as either the bully or the victim and in some cases, its both. Cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying because with it coming from technology the victim can not possibly get away from the person or people bullying him/her.

I believe that if we stick technology in the classroom make sure the school districts have blocked the sites where students could possibly bully one another and we've got to inforce the no cell phones during school more, because that's also an issue with the bullying.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/school-based-cyberbullying-interventions/?page=2

iPODS for little ones: the Pros and Cons

Having iPods in the classrooms can benefit students in many ways, it can help them be more involved in the lecures in class and feeling like they can answer questions without getting made fun of for having the wrong answer, or they don't have to tell the teacher "I don't know." They can freely answer questions and the teacher can tell who  understands the lessons and who doesn't; which then they can come up with ways to help that student or students learn. Having iPods in the classroom is allowing students to interact with students from other schools, where for example one school can make a project, do their research and data, and then they as a class can post their findings on the web and other schools and teachers can get ideas and add to the project. The internet is becoming a huge social network.

In my opinion, we should have incorperated more technology activities many years ago. Students would probably be more up to asking questions in class and having more class discussions, and not be ashamed if they don't understand or if they have their own opinion. Using these technologies in the classrooms could help our students get jobs and many other things. But we also have down falls to putting the internet into classrooms, children now are getting facebooks, twitter accounts, and many other social networking accounts; and they are at an age where they may not understand the concequences of what they are doing. Schools can also block websites from being viewed at school which could help with many things. I believe that we should incorperate technology into classrooms as long as it will benefit the students.

http://www.parentdish.com/2008/04/01/ipods-for-little-ones-the-pros-and-cons/