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3 Concerns about using technology in content area


 * 1) My main concern about using technology is that it lets the students become lazy with spelling. When students type a paper on the computer, they think that they don't need to be able to spell a word because of spell check. Spell check is a good thing, but it prevents students from actually learning how to spell the word. I think that if you are hand writing something and do not know how to spell a word, by looking it up in the dictionary, it helps a person remember how to spell it. Using a computer prevents a student from actually looking up the word.
 * 2) Some teachers may use computers as their only teaching. This concerns me because a teacher that may be lazy will lack in their face to face teaching. Students need to be taught a skill in different ways so that every student in the class understands the concept. Some students main learn the topic from a computer, but others may need to learn it by being told how to do it in person. Teachers may use computers more then they should.
 * 3) Another concern of technology is how it can be misused. Internet access makes it possible to be anonymous. This can be a bad thing when cyber bullying is present today and finding inappropriate websites is possible. There are multiple ways that students can use technology in a bad way.

3 Suggestions that benefits technology in content area


 * 1) Students are able to learn a concept through an educational fun game. I think that students get tired of always writing on worksheets or coloring. If students can use a game on the computer that builds their vocabulary or helps their addition facts, then this is an entertaining way for them to do that. There are so many educational games that can help a student to learn a specific content area. With using educational games, then spelling is forced to learn.
 * 2) Technology is a great way to incorporate into a centers.Technology use can be measured by the principal and so that teachers do not turn to computers as their only source of teaching. Students can use the smart board to answer a question that might be on a worksheet that they have completed in class. Kids love to do things on the board and so by writing on the smart board is an option to going over a worksheet.
 * 3) If students are being taught at the earliest age of the rights and wrongs of technology, then when they are older they are least likely to do that. Using computers in the classroom also builds their ability to be able to use computers when they are older. When they are older they will be in the working environment and computers and technology is a huge aspect of a job. If students begin to use computers at an early age, then they gain computer knowledge and skills as they grow up. This will be easier for them, then having to learn everything about technology once they get a job.

Resources > "When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast." > “You’ve got a classroom full of students walking in with a computer in their pocket” > "The education blog can be a powerful and effective technology tool for students and teachers alike." > "The increased use of technology in education is accompanied by concerns about technology's role in education."
 * 1) http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/effectsstudents.html
 * 1) http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/blog/texting-as-teaching-tool?src=keyword_s=msn_K=TechnologyInClassroom_C=Education_G=TeachersNewPet_Technology_M=broad#fbid=SQbaCnBwwvv&src=keyword_s
 * 1) http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47
 * 1) http://gaetc-ejournal.org/admin/concerns.htm
 * 1) http://712educators.about.com/cs/technology/a/integratetech_2.htm "The internet, just like any other technology, is a tool."

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