Regardless of how I feel about technology presently, I do believe that integrating technology into the classroom is important. I think we should use tech in the classroom because it is what interests kids today. Their entire life is floating in a messy pool of technology, their fingers sore from tiny buttons, and their eyes blinded by the flash in a mirror of a self-shot facebook pic. Anything not dealing with computers and technology is boring to them. It would be interesting to assign a reading lesson to one class using a book, and the same lesson using an on-line type of resource and see what the completion ratio would be, as well as assessment scores...it could be interesting.
I think the purpose of integrating technology into the classroom is to prepare students for the future. We need to teach students things we don't yet know about to prepare them for jobs that don't yet exist.
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