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Technology should only be brought into the classroom if it aids the teacher and / or the students in meeting their educational goals. If a technology makes learning more difficult for students then that technology will not be used in my classroom. Using technology for technology's sake can be very harmful to a learning environment.
Technology should only be brought into the classroom if it aids the teacher and / or the students in meeting their educational goals. If a technology makes learning more difficult for students then that technology will not be used in my classroom. Using technology for technology's sake can be very harmful to a learning environment.
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Technology should only be brought into the classroom if it aids the teacher and / or the students in meeting their educational goals. If a technology makes learning more difficult for students then that technology will not be used in my classroom. Using technology for technology's sake can be very harmful to a learning environment.
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My philosophy of technology in the classroom is based upon the
premise that technology should only be brought into the classroom if it aids the teacher and/or the students in meeting their educational goals. I feel that using technology for technology’s sake can be very harmful to a learning environment because at that point the technology simply becomes a distraction from the true goals in the classroom. This philosophy in turn begs a number of questions. The first question is when and why will technology is used? In my classroom technology will be used when it helps the students or the teacher to meet their goals. For example one teacher goal might be to have the students prepare a professional research paper. In that case the use of a word processing program would be a good use of technology. Another example would be if I were to assign an oral presentation. In this case the students would be allowed the option of using PowerPoint if they felt it would help them produce a good presentation. An example of where technology would not be used also comes from the hypothetical oral presentation. While I would allow the use of PowerPoint, I would not force it upon the students. I feel that programs such as PowerPoint are tools to make learning easier. If a technology makes learning more difficult for students then that technology will not be used in my classroom. Another issue is how to ensure that all students have equal use of technology. I would address this issue by first looking at the school itself. Every school has different levels of technology that permeate the school. In a high technology school where all the students have their own school assigned laptops I would be inclined to assign projects where the use of computers would be essential because I know that each student would be able to access a computer regularly. Conversely if I knew that the student population had little or no access to computers I would not assign any projects that made use of technology. I believe that classes can be taught quite well using only the bare minimum of technology, that bare minimum being word processing software. Finally I will look at whether or not a technology is used in an effective manner. I will evaluate technology by looking at it critically and asking the question “does this technology make the learning process easier?” An example of a program that does make the learning process easier is Word. Word makes learning easier because it allows students to make easy edits to papers and present them quickly in a neat and effective manner. An example of a program that might not meet my criteria is Quia. Quia might not meet my criteria because it tends to only make the learning process for the teacher easier at the expense of the students. The teacher saves time grading the quizzes, but the students tend to suffer because they are left at the mercy of a computer program. To conclude, I feel that technology is very helpful to the learning process. However, new technology must always be questioned before being brought into the classroom.