A personal timeline of educational technology

ETEC 442

Summer 2012

…is teachers incorporating the use of an array of related technology

equipment/devices with students to foster their learning. This also includes

allowing students to be creative, interact with others from around the

world in gathering information as needed, collaborating with their peers in

a critical thought process, and to make their learning accessible to not just

their teachers and peers, but to many others as well. Educational

technology is not confined to a classroom, but it is also allowing students

to seek information out in their community and their world.

The 21st Century Classroom (by Christine Marie Bailie)

http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/11795

Eighth-Graders and Algebra (by Peggy Clements and Jessica Heppen)

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2012/07/02/online-algerba.aspx?Page=1&p=1

Patterns of Engagement in Authentic Online Learning Environments

(by Janice Herrington, Ron Oliver, and Thomas Reeves)

http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/3902/

My first experience

with a computer was in

the 5th grade in 1987.

We used Apple

Macintosh computers

to track humpback

whales.

My junior year in high school (1994) we used overhead

projectors to solve math problems. I also took a

keyboarding class that allowed me to work with

computers too.

The technology equipment/tools I utilized in college are plentiful such as …

•Skype•Laulima•Elluminate•Computers•Projectors•E-mail•Gmail•MyMathLab•Online courses

• Owning my first Motorola cellular phone in 1996.

• Freedom to make call while driving in a car and/or walking outdoors.

• Longer phone reception than a home phone.

Interactive Engaging Mobile Children w/ learning

difficulties can access PECs (Picture Exchange Communication System)

Access to Internet Camera ready Video ready

I would like students’ to be able to experience learning by simulating their senses and curiosities through virtual learning.

•Endless learning possibilities

•Endless exploration

•What can’t be possible to explore CAN be possible

•Allows creativity

•Problem solving through trial and error

•Interactive

•Engaging

A challenge to using technology

in my future teaching career I

think will be support.

•To continue needed

workshops/education/informatio

n (technology is constantly

evolving).

•Provide ongoing needed

technology devices/tools to

conduct a classroom in a certain

manner (budget issues).

“Do not train a child to

learn by force or harness;

but direct them to it by

what amuses their minds,

so that you may be better

able to discover with

accuracy the peculiar bent

of the genius of each.”Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Ancient Greek Philosopher