My biggest take-aways from Ed Tech were what I learned about technology and teaching that I never knew before. I learned how to utilize technology and all the great things that it does for the classroom. It encourages students to become better learners and also allows students to help themselves to a lot more information. The internet can provide many answers and it can give learning minds more freedom. Teachers need to supervise however, and making sure that the students are doing what they need to. A lot of the cool tools benefited me because I never heard of a lot of them before this class. All of these assignments forced me to use something different and allowed me to use different materials that I have never used before. Ed Tech had a lot of work along with it. I liked all the PLN topics and found myself researching a few of them. I liked learning about different ways to be a good teacher and know that I will use some of the things that I learned in my future classroom.
I believe that technology is slowly taking over our world. It provides such an engaging atmosphere and allows students to be better learners. I definitely plan on integrating technologies into my classroom. I would love to have laptop computers for each student so that each year we can use them and the students will each be provided the same treatment. If technology is in schools, students, parents and teachers all benefit. Parents can communicate faster and easier with educators and students can get immediate feedback on what they need to know, or fix. I plan on using google slides into my lessons and teaching my students the importance of being able to correctly work technology devices.
