Digital badge # C – Chapter 2

Technology Integration into the Classroom: The Modern Classroom.

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                 Chapter 2 talks about the issues and trends involved with technology integration into the classroom today.  In the section titled A Career That Matters talks about teachers and the impact they have our society.  Teachers convey information and teach students who have individual learning needs.  This section also talks about the ways technology has enhanced instruction and learning.  The section talks about the tendency of teachers to teach as they were taught but also emphasizes the role of the teacher to always expand their teaching methods and learning.

                This chapter has a section titled Computer Technologies and Web 2.0 Tools, which explains that today’s technologies are referred to as Web 2.0 tools because of its evolved and interactive capabilities.  The development of these tools has opened a path to new terminology such as Web 2.0 knowledge which is the idea that ideas are derived and gathered which differs greatly from theoretical knowledge which is created by exports, elites, and scholars.  Which goes to show that technology has even shaped the language and terminologies of today’s society.

                Further exploration of chapter 2 talks about Technology Choices and Student Engagement, this section looks at the motivation of students and which tools help to engage these students.  This section talks about the percentages of students and the interest of that students to be engaged during a lecture.  The tendency of today’s student not to connect with teachers who use textbooks and repetition as a means of teaching, has made it necessary for all teachers to take notice of a student learning style and even that students interests in schools and in a sense his outside of school interests in order to deliver a lesson in a meaningful way for the student. 

                This chapter has brought to light many new terms and ideas relevant to technology integration into the classroom.  It has help me to understand the issues that today’s society have with technology, but has also helped me to understand that it is necessary and helpful for students, teachers and society alike.  Technology is necessary and will continue to evolve and change our society continuously.

Resources:

Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2014). Transforming learning with new technologies (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.