My Reflection

The entire experience has proven to be an excellent advancement in my career as an educator. Over the past couple of years I realized that technology played an important t role at my school and how much the students were extremely interested in technology.Children born today will never know a day without technology and what it offers. It is so important that educators are knowledgeable about educational technology and how it can heighten students’ learning. Being Peer Facilitator I had to figure out ways to integrate and incorporate technology into teacher’s classroom to keep current with the new age teaching concepts and to foster new ways to make learning exciting and interesting.  Educational Technology is something that is useful and exciting to me as a teacher because you can create, demonstrate, and have the children apply and enhance their knowledge through various educational technological means. The possibilities are fun, educational, and endless.  It is really fascinating to me just how much is out there that can assist in educational purposes.

Through Fundamentals of Educational Technology course I have learned to value and understand that we must have a vested interest in technology to educate our students properly. This course has taught me skills and has given me tools that I can use to make my teaching more effective and meaningful. Creating a Wiki website and a Blog has made me think of new ways to communicate with our students and parents. Additionally researching and developing the Internship Plan with the eight ISTE Technology Facilitator Standards, the 33 Performance Indicators and the 78 Performance Tasks has caused me to reevaluate how we use technology on our campus and how I can be a technology leader that promotes and highlights innovative ways to prepare our students for the future. I have learned many new ways of making my information a lot more assessable for my students with the use of the Internet. I have new ideas that will enable myself to have a fully functional website that is comprehensible for my students to learn form. I plan to have videos, Blogs, tests, assignments, great links, and many different applications to enhance my students’ learning. Plus, I feel fortunate to be apart of a dynamic and encouraging cohort that has given to me constructive feedback and support on my assignments and where I have learned about their important projects and concerns at their own schools.