My Beliefs

I totally believe that technology should be integrated into the classroom. Technology is our future. I can not imagine what new types of technologies there are going to be available in the years to come. We need to keep up with technology and let students learn through technology because they are going to be doing everything else with technology. More and More students are being diagnosed with ADHD because the students are acting too hyper and cannot concentrate. This is happening because the students are used to all the stimuli at home like the internet, television,computer games, video games, cell phones, ipods, etc. They learn to handle all the stimuli happening all around them that when they get to school and they sit in the same classroom without computers or television or cell phones they don't know what to do. It is not interactive enough for them. I think that it would be great if more schools had computers in their classrooms and involved technology more. They should allow students to explore the internet and digital cameras and other programs on the computers. This can be done at the early grades too. My niece is almost four and she searches on google for toys and the princess videos. She knows what to do. Students are being interactive with technology at a younger and younger age. Their world is so much different than the one i grew up in. They need to be taught different. They need to be taught in ways that are familiar to them which is technology.

The only thing that scares me with technology is less interaction with other students. Just with people my age, they have noticed that we do not know communication skills. That we just text instead of calling and you do not get the same interaction. It is scary that the students may not be learning valuable people skills and how to talk to one another face to face. I know it isn't something that is too bad right now but I think that when we integrate all this technology, we must make sure we have a balance and that the students still get the interaction that they need from the teacher and the students.