Monday, January 24, 2011

Tech and Me

I've been out of school for a long time now and it's hard for me to get use to the scale at which computers are being used in the classroom.   Since doing my observation last semester, I've seen it used from software that teaches different subjects to the students, to smart boards, to networking with the parents in order to keep them up to speed on their child's homework.  None of this was around when I was in school, but I think it's a great thing.
And like I said, it's going to take some getting use to.  I don't use computers too much in my daily life besides checking my e-mail, editing music and editing video.  I'm not really into social networking either,  I have a Facebook account but I rarely use it.  I do see the usefulness of networking on a professional level; finding out what's new in my field, communicating with students parents.  So I'm going to have to learn to love technology (not that I ever hated it)