Teaching and Technology

This is a picture of our PowerPoint! when my group presented the Scribbler's information to the class.

Technology is becoming more and more important in this day and age for various reasons. First off with the expansion of technology helps bring forth more knowledge. Before the internet everyone had to travel to the library to have information for their research papers but now all of the information you will ever need is at your fingertips. It is amazing that most schools in the country has at least one computer lab somewhere in their school and have access to it for school work. There are some schools that have computers set up at every desk for every student to use like in some public schools in California, and Florida. Even at the CDL where I work they have began implementing technology into their classrooms by allowing the older groups of children get onto the computer on young child educational sites like PBSkids.

Because of the usage of the internet books and posters for science experiments are beginning to become obsolete. For the first time the middle school I attended allowed their students to submit by email their science experiment findings and do their entire presentation on a PowerPoint. The elementary school I attended now has at least three computers in each classroom and three times a week each class goes into the computer lab for typing lessons on the computers, and the upper grades they are using the internet for information for the social studies fair and dioramas. When I was in elementary school I was popular because I had a computer, now it is common for many families to have multiple computers in their homes. My family for instance we had only one computer until late 1999 then my parents bought a new computer and the old computer was put into my room for me and my brothers to use for computer games and eventually the internet for school assignments within 2 years. Now between everyone in my family we have a total not counting my laptop of 4 working computers and only one of them is a laptop which is my brothers for college.

Technology is something that is not going to go away because everyday people are coming up with greater and greater things for computers and thus improving current technology trends. Technological jobs are on the rise because technology is something that will not stop improving and mutating for many years to come.