Three Concepts to Reflect
After a relaxing Thanksgiving break, reading Chapter 12, "Integrating Technology and Creating Change as Teacher Leaders" explained significantly the importance of technology integration in the classroom to me as a future teacher. With technology integration and educational change, new concepts and ideas are thought of to improve technology in the classroom. The first term that caught my attention, inclusion, "means that computers and information technologies are used mainly for transferring information and practicing skills" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). It is minimal use such as scheduling and classes. I personally believe technology should be more included in everyday class to enhance learning.
Marc Warschauer's social infomatics was the second term that caught my eye. It is an analysis "where technology's impacts are considered within the context of larger social, economic, and political realities, as well as social and racial differences" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). It is supposed to allow more technological opportunities to less fortunate families in order to improve educational experience. I believe that having such places like libraries with modern technology is a great way to have open resources to students.
One-to-one laptop computing, the last term I am mentioning, "means every student in a grade, school, or district has her or his own computing device to use in school" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). This is supposed to prevent digital inequality between students. When I went to high school, every student had access to laptops to take notes and work on homework with. I found it extremely useful and convenient.
Overall, I found this chapter very informative. There was an abundance of theories that would seem helpful in the classroom. I would like to see how one-to-one laptop computing would work in an elementary or middle school setting.
Here is a bitstrip explaining the importance of teaching the teachers about improvements in technology for the classroom.
http://bitstrips.com/r/GKS7K
References
Hunt, A. (2015, November 29). Chapter 12. Retrieved November 29, 2015, from http://bitstrips.com/r/GKS7K
It sure helps to have up-to-date and adequate infrastructure (i.e., technology hardware/software) to use it with teachers and students, however the way it is used (including teaching teachers how best to use it as depicted in your bitstrip) is just as, if not more, important. :) Like your created comic - wish you had embedded it or downloaded as image to upload...one of the best characteristics about good digital writing is to have the multimedia right there on the blog and not have to 'click' to another page.
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