EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVEEDUC 511

Nathan Wolfe

TECHNOLOGY IS KEY

Technology is key:• in expanding educational horizons• in creating college and career-ready students• in developing life-long learners devoted to relevant teaching• in implementing innovative ways to collaborate and participate in the learning experience.

STATE OF TECHNOLOGYWith over 60% of students preferring to use mobile devices to: • check grades,• take notes,• access textbooks,• research,

• collaborate with peers, to deny such trends to flourish in the school environment would: • hinder students’ academic progression • prevent them from learning how to properly use current and evolving tools.

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGYWhile technology may progress and innovations make learning easier, unless teachers put forth the effort to learn and implement such technologies themselves, they will be rendered useless.

How to make learning come alive:• use Mobile devices • augmented reality apps• gesture-based computing• connecting peers through networked learning

LEARNING RESOURCESAs technologies expand, so also does the availability of learning resources like:• iPad textbooks created by teachers• an increase of video-based learning• educational gaming (all subjects)

With such resources, however, comes the need for:• instruction on digital citizenship• teaching “netiquette”• internet safety and privacy

Technology is but a tool in education used to inspire further learning and self-initiated discovery.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

~William Butler Yeats

PERSONAL LEARNING GOAL

With the use of technological innovations rising in teaching trends, my goal in this program is two-fold:• to provide relevant teaching for my students through a consistent use of the digital• to help me discover new and better ways to implement group work and collaboration through technology

CONCLUSIONEquipped with a knowledge of expanding digital innovations, changing trends in today’s students, and a desire to implement technology to make learning easier, I know this program will place me in a position to be transformational teacher I want to be.