Old Post (Week 12)
How do we use technology to educate?
This was another question posted on Blackboard during Unit 4. I use technology to help educate my students in ways I couldn’t possibly do in my classroom. Technology use in my classroom is similar to a field trip. Field trips are fun, educational, insightful, and teaches things other than just core content objectives. We’ve all taken kids on trips and have been shocked to find out they’ve never been out of the county. (My most recent experience included lunch at the mall, a place many of my students had never been inside.) Technology like that field trip provides students the opportunity to see things in a new perspective, to do things they’ve never done, and do experience the world. Technology boosts the interest level of many students grabbing their attention and pulling them into the lesson. Those are some ways technology is used to educate.
