answer surveys, do homework or even get the notes form a class that you may have missed. As a student it is great to be using technology in classrooms, because in our generation we have grown up using it in everything that we do. As a student, I can say that if my teacher did not use some sort of technology in their class to enhance the lesson and make it more effective I would be honest in saying that I would be very bored and most likely lose interest in what was being taught.
Eventually when I begin to teach, I want to incorporate the use if blogging and interactive technology into my classroom. I really believe, that you need to teach children about technology. If they are in the dark, they will face many disadvantages in school, work and life. It is inevitable that we will be fully reliant on technology in the next ten years or so.
A plus to using technology in the classroom, is that you can interact with the parents either by posting a classroom blog that states everything that is going on as well as the homework assignments or you can simply email back and forth individually with the parent. Also a fun thing a teacher can have set up by a parent is a classroom photo album. Through the year the kids can go online and look through the pictures of what they did during that year.
Overall, I think the use of technology is the way to go. There may be some teachers who may be hesitant to use it, but I think if you take some time and show them how to use it as well as seeing the benefits from it, more and more will be on board.
