EDCT+203+-+Week+1

This week I built a Wiki in wikispaces.com. I have never used a wiki before, but I hope that I can learn a lot about it so that I could use it to help students learn to enhance their writing skills. An assignment that I created this week dealt with different issues with using technology in schools. It was a really interesting assignment which I really enjoyed. I got the chance to see different views of the issues. Most of the issues that I thought I knew about, I didn't. I learned a lot more from reading these articles. This assignment challenged some of my theories in dealing with certain technologies in the classroom. One example of this was the use of cell phones. Prior to this assignment I would have said that they were a bad idea, but now I think that there is a time and place for them to be used in the classroom. All of the issues have more than one view. The main thing that I learned from this assignment was to get all of the information that I can on technologies before making an opinion in regards to using them in the classroom. I think that as more technologies develop and as time goes on, all technologies will become more prevalent in the classroom. Most technologies, even if you think that they are instantly not suited for the classroom (as I did originally with cell phones) do have their time and place for appropriate use in the school system. Not everyone is going to agree on whether or not to use certain technologies or to the extent to which they should be used, but that is okay. Change is always good, and teachers should form their own opinions on these issues and develop their classes accordingly.