Chapter Six Response:
Technology in the classroom is an unavoidable thing. It is
becoming increasingly popular and in many ways useful. I am a math teacher and
in my classroom I do not see many technologies becoming extremely useful,
because the best way to learn math is to get out a pencil, some paper and do
practice problems. I believe the only really necessary technology for the math
classroom is a calculator, which now a days are basically mini computer
anyways. If you have a handheld device that does math for you are you really
learning math or just how to press buttons?
Chapter Eleven Response:
A traditional audio technology would be an audio cassette
tape. This could be used in a Spanish classroom in order to have the students
hear a native Spanish speaker talk. This could help them learn the correct
pronunciation of words and get used to hearing accents from other countries. An
example of an emerging technology would be the Internet radio. A social studies
teacher could play a short clip at the beginning of class in order to get the
class interested in the topic of the day or to just lighten the mood. A
traditional visual technology would be print materials like books, posters, and
worksheets. There are infinitely many possibilities to how these could be used
in the classroom for example using images to describe a difficult process like
mitosis and meiosis in biology would be helpful. An example of an emerging
technology for visual technology would be document cameras. These would be
perfect when doing a dissection in anatomy because the teacher could preform
the dissection with out the students needing to crowd around the demonstration
table. With the document cameras the students see what the teacher sees.
