One of the most exciting parts of society in this day and age is technology. There are so many different aspects of life that have been able to come alive just from the mere part of technology and the advancements that we have made even over the past few years. The reason in which I decided to go into the mathematical field was because of how visual the concepts and ideas are. The more that I learned about mathematics, the more I was able to put ideas and concepts together which made an even larger picture for me. During my time while attending high school, there were few technology bases for us to use within the classroom. Even the limited amount of technology that we had didn't give our teachers enough confidence to implement them on a large scale, especially in the mathematics department.
As we enter a very unique and important time with teaching, technology is going to be able to give us advancements in which we were never going to be able to use in the past. First off, the technology that is provided within the district that I have been placed in is phenomenal. I see the students using their iPads and computers consistently during the day for the right reasons. As these technological pieces have been made, developers have had to create new and exciting programs for teachers to use within the classroom using these technological pieces.
Looking down the road, I believe that I would be able to use twitter in a sense that my students would be able to use for their own and to help their peers. I have already seen that on a snow day, the students at the school that I have been placed at have been able to communicate with each other and the teacher(s) on problems that they are trying to produce in order to stay on task. Knowing that teachers are not able to lose days of instruction, when we have these interruptions we are able to manage an environment that can stay up to speed even from home. The students would be able to take pictures of their work and submit them using twitter, for example, and get feedback from their peers and instructor(s) in order to allow them to complete the problem without confusing themselves further. The final note that I will attach to using technology within the classroom is the fact that technology is not going to be going away when the students that we are teaching enter the real world. With using the technology within the classroom they are getting more practice in which they will be able to apply to a post secondary education and/or work field given their interest.
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