Technology Interview

1. What did you learn from this interview?
This technology interview was very helpful of informing me of what is available to me as a teacher to use in the classroom for my students. The school I was at was fortunate to be able to have a mac lab that they could use. It was given to the school by the PTA who raised the money to purchase the lab. We used the lab in our technology rich lesson plan. The students are pros at the computer you can tell they are comfortable around technology. Not only from this interview did I learn what was available to use I also learned what is not. The school does not have musch funds for technology in the school but basically what the teachers need can be found if needed.

2. How will this experience affect you as a teacher?
This experience helped me to see that technology is not a burden. I always thought that by using technolgy in my classroom that it would take so much work and time. In some ways that is still true to me but over all technology can make things so much easier and once its made you can save it and use it again and again. The students love technology as well. They are good at it and I had a first hand exeperience that when I was up lecturing students on was going to be done than the mac lab was brought in, it brought a whole new feeling of learning into the classroom the students were all 100% engaged in the learning assignment.

3. How did this experience change your thinking about the use of technology?
Just like mentioned in the paragraph above I always thought that it took so much effort to bring it into the classroom and make it part of the lessons. But it doesn't it really doesn't. In the classroom I was in technology was always used. The teacher was very good with technology which I can't say that I am (I'm working on it) and brought it in to the lessons so easily. I hope that I will one day be that good at it. This field experience changed my attitude towards technology in the classroom completly. I saw that the students loved it and wanted it to be apart fo their classroom.