Reflection 2: Website

Your website that you have set was really fun to explore. It was interesting to see the array of different links and options that are available. There were sections that focused on your family (the pictures of your kids), sections that focused on entertainment (movies/youtube videos) and then different links available to teachers/students that have good technology based resources. I really enjoyed how the website included all different aspects of your life from family, to interests/passions, to your job and your students. This is a really good way to introduce yourself to your students. As a future teacher it helped me see that it is important to show different sides of myself to my students besides my “teaching” side.

Technology Reflection 1: Bits, Bytes and Nibbles

While exploring your blog there were two articles that caught my attention. The first was the article about the organization ISTE and the effort that it is putting forth to raise awareness of the importance of educational technology classes. I myself am not a big technology person. Do I appreciate my cell phone and computer? Yes of course, but there are times when I just want to take a break from them. However, reading this article I realized that despite the fact that technology is not something I am particularly fond of, it is something that our students need to be knowledgeable about in order to survive in our society today.

The second article that I found very interesting was 180 degrees different from the first article I viewed. It was the article about the classroom that went back to 1983 by limiting technology that students could use. It was interesting to see that despite how much our society loves technology-especially younger generations- people can live without it and actually enjoyed being high tech free. The difference in these two articles made me realize that maybe there needs to be a balance in the classroom between high technology use and limited technology use. It is definitely something to consider as I start to enter the education field.