Technology in Schools
DEBORAH L. TATUM-OAKES
Part Two: Essay
The classroom tools that teachers use today are using interactive white boards, and now it is said that 40% of K-12 grades use them in their classrooms they also go by other names too -- SMART Board, ActivBoard, eBeam, Mimio, Webster -- with slightly different features are available. Portable devices also play a big part too, graphing calculators, laptops, tablets, e-readers, smart phones, and mp3 players, widely available to the general public, are also considered potentially valuable classroom resources by many teachers and the kids in their classes. Hand in hand with portable devices goes is the web-based communications and content they able us to use. The web-based communications not only help teachers and students keep in touch outside the class, but also help kids do their homework together without having to over to each other house if they live far away from each other, or if they go to an online school like we do. Web-based content ables teachers to download teaching materials, lesson plans and activities for the week or year from the internet for their classes to use. They can stream videos, games, and other things to help show their points to their classes. They can even make their own web-sites and use web-cams to give lessons to their online classes. When I become a teacher I would like to teach k-3rd grades and think that a lot of these technologies like the smart-board, tablets, e-readers and mp3 players will be very helpful to me in help my class of kids learn all the things they need in order to grow-up to be great people and go to do great things. I see myself putting all of these thing to good use by making lesson plans and slide shows to help the kids see my point, and I’ll also try my best to enlighten all the kids in all of my classes. In all I see the internet to be the hardest to use in a k-3 grades due to the fact that a lot of things on it are not kid friendly. The things that are missing from the
Part Two: Essay
The classroom tools that teachers use today are using interactive white boards, and now it is said that 40% of K-12 grades use them in their classrooms they also go by other names too -- SMART Board, ActivBoard, eBeam, Mimio, Webster -- with slightly different features are available. Portable devices also play a big part too, graphing calculators, laptops, tablets, e-readers, smart phones, and mp3 players, widely available to the general public, are also considered potentially valuable classroom resources by many teachers and the kids in their classes. Hand in hand with portable devices goes is the web-based communications and content they able us to use. The web-based communications not only help teachers and students keep in touch outside the class, but also help kids do their homework together without having to over to each other house if they live far away from each other, or if they go to an online school like we do. Web-based content ables teachers to download teaching materials, lesson plans and activities for the week or year from the internet for their classes to use. They can stream videos, games, and other things to help show their points to their classes. They can even make their own web-sites and use web-cams to give lessons to their online classes. When I become a teacher I would like to teach k-3rd grades and think that a lot of these technologies like the smart-board, tablets, e-readers and mp3 players will be very helpful to me in help my class of kids learn all the things they need in order to grow-up to be great people and go to do great things. I see myself putting all of these thing to good use by making lesson plans and slide shows to help the kids see my point, and I’ll also try my best to enlighten all the kids in all of my classes. In all I see the internet to be the hardest to use in a k-3 grades due to the fact that a lot of things on it are not kid friendly. The things that are missing from the