Digital technology has the ability to expand lesson plans and the sources of information that your students have access to. Chapter six gave examples of many innovative technologies for the classroom use, such as electric graphic tables, pen input devices, etc. After reading the chapter, I was amazed by how much technology devices are made to be used in the classroom.
When I was elementary school, I remember doing reading activities on the computer. We used headphones and speakers to follow along with the activities. Then, we used a mouse to move around the screen but now many schools have advanced to the touch screens. I think touch screens are a great device to have in the classroom, because it assists student with special needs as well as students who are pre-readers (such as Preschool and Kindergarten). The most advanced piece of technology that I have witnessed in a classroom was a Smart Board in my AP U.S History class. It was similar to the description of a electronic whiteboard in the text, but instead of being displayed on white board, the Smart board displayed information like an overhead projector. I remember many teachers coming into the classroom and asking if they could use the Smart Board in their classroom, because my teacher was the only person in the school with one. The problem was that the device was expensive and the school could not supply many teachers with one for their classroom. That was two years ago, and I feel like sometime in the future, the schools will plan to buy more technology devices for their classrooms with school funding.
This chapter was significant to us as future educators, because schools do plan to continue to use different and new forms of technology in the classroom. We must be aware of the different types of technology and how to work them, in order to make our classrooms a place of better learning.
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