Digital Badge#I-Chapter 12

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The opening story of this chapter is a great example of two teachers using technology integration and educational change. Both Tim and Heather used all the technology tools they had in their classroom and included them in their lesson plan. What good can technology be if you do not make any use of it? I understand sometimes teachers do not know how to use them but that is why we should be ready for change and learning. We can not move on from old ways until we make an effort to learn new ways. What these two teachers are doing is great and it should be exactly what every teacher should do. Starting with a tool a week is a good step. When I become a teacher I will definitely be like both Tim and Heather. 

  Stages of Technology Integration- This section of the book is basically the steps you need to take to integrate technology into your classroom or in which stages some teachers are currently in their classroom. Like the book says as moving from "dabbling" to "doing old things in old ways" to :doing old things in new ways" to "doing new things in new ways". I though it was pretty neat how these stages are all labeled right. How every teacher can be at different stages teaching the same grade or class. If I were to be a teacher now I would definitely like to be in the last stage which is Invention. This stage is where teachers basically start to experiment many instructional patterns and ways of relating to students. I think this is the stage where all teachers should be at this point especially teaching the 21st century. When teachers do this, it enables the students to understand things a lot better and participate more because technology is their "thing" . I think just like the book says "when teachers make technology a regular resource for learning, students benefit."

Technology Integration Issues- All of the six issues that occur for classroom teachers that directly affect their efforts to ingrate technology into teaching, the one I would agree with the most and put as the number one would be "Unwillingness to change favorite lesson plans". This includes those teachers that have been teaching for ever who are so used to doing their lesson plans a certain way and now they think is too late or too lazy to change their ways. The answer to that is stop being so negative about technology and change your ways a little. You never know how good things can turn out to be until you try them. Most of these teachers that are stuck on their old ways, do not know what they are missing on. technology can make these lesson plans they have been doing for years a lot more interesting and fun to do in class. 

Overall, this chapter talked about a lot of what i already know and common sense concepts. I did learn some cool statistics presented and was not surprised at all from what I saw. One thing I did not mention that I loved the thought of was the One-to-one laptop computing. Great chapter, good concepts to know about that would help my in my career !

Here are a few clips that I found on youtube that were pretty interesting, that had to do with this chapter. 

Resources: Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2011).Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.