Digital Badge #A - Chapter 1

First, In today society adolescence use technology way more than they used it a few years ago. A few of the ways they use technology today is for social media, games, and music. Adolescence spend an average of seven hours and thirty-eight minutes a day on their computers or cell phone. That's almost a third of their day they're on their phones and/ or computers. But even though they spend most of their days on social media, technology gives them a helping hand when it comes to school by assisting them with reports, projects, etc. This will impact me as a teacher both in an negative and positive ways. For example my students will always be distracted about they're friends social lives on social media or they may find passing the level in their games more important. But on a positive note I will always be confident in their capability by the information they can find online assist them with class assignments.



Second, I want to talk about technology based teaching tools, Such as Smart Boards. I fell that Smart Boards will have a huge impact on myself as a teacher because they are so advance into today technology, they cover a vast area of teaching methods like visual, auditory, etc.  For example if I was a math teacher and I had a student who need to visualize what I am lecturing about well then I can just turn on the Smart Board and have him or myself write it down, so in that example I am teaching not just one method but two (visual and auditory). As I was graduating high school smart boards were just coming into the teaching world, but now three years later it seems like they are really taking off. Below I've placed a YouTube video on why Smart Boards are so easy to use, It also shows in this video how importation the details are on why Smart Boards really come in handy in classroom settings.

Third, Technology based offices give teachers today an edge with organizing and teaching. Meanwhile if you reversed time to a few years ago teachers would literally have a desk and filing cabinets and a cluster of papers all over. But now in today's technological world all a teachers need is a laptop and a hard drive which practically gives them a portable office for them to carry around. This impacts teachers in positive also making it easier for teacher to take their work home with them. This would also assist me for example, those days that I didn't have enough time to finish grading assignment I could go to the local Starbucks get my morning coffee, utilize their WiFi, and finish grading assignments before going into the classroom.




In conclusion, I fell that all three of these technological concepts, Adolescence use technology, Technology based teaching tools and Technology based offices would be greatly used and beneficial to the twenty first century of teaching not just at school but in homes as well. Its very important for the older teachers and the newer teachers to stay current and up to date on the new enhancements that technology has to offer, not just for the students but for them as well, this technology was developed and designed to make everyone's life a little easier one day at a time.


Resources:

Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.

M, C. (2009, April 13). SMART Education Solutions . Retrieved January 18, 2015, from www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U05WeXPGlk