Technology in Education

This is the last reflective post for my assignment. Throughout this class I have learned much more about technology in education;creating a professional website, creating a digital story, social media, blogging, creating a web quest, and using various "cool tools" has grown my educational knowledge. I will continue to use alot of these tools now and in the future. I think that technology in education will continue to grow and my opinion about this topic was positive before I started this class and has not changed but has made me appreciate the ease and convinience of technology in every aspect. I learned about many resources and hope to use them whenever possible and in my future classroom. Children are involved everyday with technology and children as young as my son (who is two years old) are engaged with any sort of technological tool which is why I believe technology should be included in the school curriculum. My current work place is fully integrated with technolgy in every classroom and has every child 1:1 with technology. Before I started this class, I was pretty tech saavy but I think I know alot more about technology after taking this class;I know how to use technology tools in education and I know more about it overall. I believe I am prepared to teach 21st century learners after this class and hopefully learn more about technology trends and other information in the future. Prezi and Glogster were two of my favorite "cool tools" that I really liked and I think I will use these tools again in the future. Having had learned about all of these Web 2.0 "cool tools" in education and finding out of many resources has made me see how technology is used in every aspect.