My Beliefs

My beliefs when it comes to technology might differ from many others beliefs. I think that technology is important and needs to be integrated into our educational programs. Technology is our future and the students who are going to be the future need to have an understanding. At the same time I feel that we need to not have our students rely on technology. When a student is given a math problem and only ever uses a calculator how will ever know how to do it with out one. Many will say well the technology is there so we don’t have to do thing the hard way, well that is true at the time but what will they use when technology happens to not be there?
Many students are intimidated by technology. Some of them just do not learn in that way. I feel that technology is a great learning tool and can bring the world in to the classroom, but we need to keep in mind how our students learn and maybe not all of them are as comfortable with it as others might be. I will integrate technology in to my classroom but I also believe that there is a place for when it should be used.