Topic of the Day
Stages of Technology
So the other day my teacher set up an assignment on the topic "Stages of Technology" and asked us a few questions, but first, let me give you a quick lesson on this topic.
So basically is an experiment that was done in classrooms to see how teacher would find technology useful to use in there lesson plans. There's 5 stages on how they believe the Teacher felt about technology as a result of testing them out. These today are still active and I believe teacher are still in some of these stages.
I took these pictures off the presentation!
There simple and straight to the point if you don't want to see the presentation :)
So the teacher asked us if we felt we were in one of these stages personally or professionally and I'm going to be very honest! I'm a beginner in the professional aspect of it, but I feel like I would be the type of teacher that is the Innovator, since I'm NOW learning all the benefits of having technology and for what can be used in my curriculum and classroom that when I get to actually start teaching I would feel like and expert and confident about it. Personally I've used technology since I was 13 years old and it's been basically for social purposes. NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT! My Mom was very trusting of me! letting a 13 year old be in a computer exploring! Uuuffff!!!... But she did monitor me and I really used it for social proposes. But social tech also did help me in my typing skills and how to communicate to different crowds , age groups, see different perspectives and ideas, communicate with people from different places (of course it was monitored). Now as professionally not only I can use it for those purposes but it has opened a new window for me to use technology for educational purposes like I'm doing right now with this blog! Blogging you guys about what I'm learning and teaching you guys what I learned. Each day I like more and more teaching and I can't wait to actually start doing it with real students in a real classroom.
Very impressed with how far you've come! The mind is a terrible thing to waste and you're doing an amazing job with yours!
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DeleteI'm a beginner using technology professionally as well, but practice makes perfect right? As professionals, technology will only give us more options to chose from when planning assignments and projects making them more engaging. I also like how you brought up the topic of monitoring which is important especially with children you never know what they may stumble upon.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your response and you are so right, we need the monitoring with our children and future students!
DeleteI liked that you were honest about which stage you think you are in! Practice really makes perfect! :) Monitoring is so important, especially with all these pop-ups that come up, children can simply click on them and it takes them to another page. Kind of scary!
ReplyDeleteI love your enthusiasm about getting into a classroom to use technology!
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