Leaning Enhanced Through Technology

Students learning can be enhanced through the use of technology in the classroom.  Often the use of technology in the classroom results with more time.  What I mean by this is they have the ease of finishing things at home or thinking and then responding from home rather than from the classroom itself.  Cell-phones can be of great impact in the classrooms even when taking poles or texting a blog which the whole class can see.  It allows for better communication between the teacher and the students.  Students can now be taught through using different forms of power-points which can have movies directly on them which allows faster service to the teacher for videos.  Some advantages to using web tools would be that they are easy to use and saves time.  There are limited options thought to using web tools and this can be a disadvantage.  Templates and what not may not be able to be viewed or researched because the program is not covering that specific topic.  It can also create a reliance upon the program itself.  Students will be at a loss because of this because then its turns them into filling out more so busy work and more so zombies rather than thinking for themselves. Technology innovations will always be coming up as we teach our students and we must learn to move along with them! A much different approach may need to be taken when using different technology innovations and lets grab a hold of the thought, analyze it for what the positives and negatives are before we use them or find other means to combine with so that all basses are covered.