Sunday, March 2, 2008

Class 7 Readings (2/25/08)

Technology: A Catalyst for Teaching and Learning in the Classroom

The fact is that we use technology everyday in our lives. With out it, we are lost. Everything from banking, right down to buying groceries at the supermarket uses a computer to calculate the transaction. The world we know revolves around some form of modern technology, except one, education. The big question is why not education. Well, the first thing we must consider is that education is a very large idea, covering many different areas. As advanced as technology is, we still have not been able to replace teacher intuition with computer fuzzy logic. We are starting to use it as a resource but even that is slow.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Classroom Instruction
that Works

This article provided a great amount of online resources and links. This was more of simply a resource guide than anything else. It also provided different ideas for the implementing of web and tech based ideas and resources into the lesions and classroom.

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