Blog post 5

Technology Taking a Hold 

My position on my topic did change. In blog post one I proposed a lot of questions about the integration and the gains of losses in integrating it into the classroom.  My research findings made me realize how technology in the recent future years is going to be the main source of learning. There are a lot of new technology ideas and devices that are coming to the surface but only some classrooms are going to be able to flourish in this opportunity. It is not fair that some schools are going to receive the advances of technology while others are far behind. This is going to create a bigger gap between the future generation people. Technology is creating an environment where the basis of every task requires some use of technology. Technology integration's goal is to expand the children’s mind in an efficient, effective way. I believe that this can be done effectively without technology as we are becoming dependent on technology teaching our younger generations to settle for less than personal interaction.

It will affect my future teaching endeavors as I am learning it is going to be difficult to go against the new strain of wiring technology into the daily education system. I see the benefits of technology and communicating with outside sources. But what do we want to be teaching children? To advance with something man made because we have that ability? It is making us more infatuated with material items which are something I do not want to be a part of. Yes, technology is going to work out the mind more efficiently than a teacher but that is just because of where our society has decided to head. We are making technology more advanced in ways that may not be necessary. A lot of the communication done between the student and the teacher will be technology based, if it is done through technology or if the questions are about the tasks being asked with the technology. The personal interaction between the student and teacher is not as personable when the constant talk is not on a relative level about the person; it is instead about a device.  My question is still remaining about the true deep benefit of technology in the classroom. It is very understandable to use it for basic needs when communicating with the parents and making things more efficient in that way. I disagree with the degree the educational system is deciding to take in the use of technology.