Educational+Technology

Educational Technology is using more than just text books into the classroom to help students learn. Whether it be the internet, searchn engines like google, or yahoo, Blogging, powerpoints, anything really other than just plain text books. I think educational technology is good thing to use because ot gets kids out of the every day ruitine of getting to class, and either reading or getting a lecture the whole time. The more ways we can learn, the better. Some people have a hard time trying to learn just one way. The more inovative classrooms get, the better.

There are actually a lot of groups that are set up to make sure that technology is used within the educational field. They want both students and teachers to be familiar with technology. They believe in using technology so much that they want a lot of textbooks to be online or on a disk. They believe that using technology will help the students learn and understand better in the classroom. One of these groups are called the international society for technology in Education (ISTE). To learn more about them, you can go to their website, which is: http://www.iste.org/

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/te0cont.htm is a website that includes many articles about integrating technology into schools. One main issue for the incorporating technology in the classroom is lack of funding. This website give teachers tips for finding money to buy new technology. It also gives many useful websites that schoolsnmay find helpful.

Educational Technology is about integrating technological items into the classroom. For example, using the computer to search the web ans using an iPod to view podcasts. Educational technology is educating using technology. Years ago, many technological resources were not available to us. We are lucky enough to have access to such things now a days. There are even educational games available on the computer for little kids. Such devices as the computer give children of all ages an opportunity to learn through means of technology. They can look up information for projects or papers, read magazines and newspapers online, or even post blogs as I am doing right now.

Students in this generation have grown up with technology. Therefore, the integration of technology in education is important, not only because it benefits the students and educators with a wider variety of resources, but also because students will be expected to understand and manipulate the basics of technology in the future. Teaching young students how to navigate the computer and search the Internet may be valuable information in their education career. There are several websites and organizations that are devoted to the promotion of educational technology that educators and parents should take advantage of.

Educational Technology is more than just having technology in the classroom. It is about teaching the students technology and the uses of technology in life. Teachers can integrate technology into many activities and subjects they can assign to the class. Also, their are many available websites that the children can use to communicate to eachother about subjects in the classroom such as blogs and wikis. They can also bring technology right into the classroom like the interactive whiteboards.