Question: What's the difference between technology use and technology integration? -I feel that there is a big difference between technology integration and technology use. To me technology use is using something that you already know how to. Generally, it is using something that is not considered new technology. This blog would be an excellent example of technology use. In a classroom technology use is something as simple as using light bulbs or utilizing powerpoint as an aid for lecturing. Teachers and people use technology in everyday situations and don't even realize it. However, technology integration is using technology that is new and exciting, OR using technology in a different way then previously used. I cannot give examples of this in my personal life because I do not integrate technology. I am a college student and cannot afford to be on the cutting edge of technology. In a classroom however, this would be using new technology to aid students that are in special ed. Last year in one of my education classes we were shown a video of teachers using ipods to record lessons and readings and then sending them home with students for review at home.
I would have to agree that technology integration should be new and exciting or used in a different way. It is important to remember however, for your view on technology use may not be the same for a teacher who is out of touch with new technology. For someone like you who is very wise with computers, a teacher who is sixty years old might be unfamiliar with the settings of a computer and how to use one. That is one aspect you should keep in mind when thinking about this question.
My wonderings have helped me to look at my time in my PDS a great deal. Probably the easiest way for me to explain this is that it makes me wonder why and how. In fact that's what being an education major has made me do in general about a classroom setting. It has taught me that the education field constantly should be revising itself and learning from its previous endeavors. This is not something that is a new concept,for me it is just something that I did not realize, that is to say that I knew that teachers should constantly be changing and revising pedagogy and content and presentation, I just had never thought about the process to which this was done, and to me that is what a wondering is.
I really enjoyed your point of view and thoughts on your wonderings. I really do agree with the fact that teachers have to persistently change their approach and style of teaching. It is a constant method of trial and error. By doing this, it makes the teacher better at her or his profession and makes the classes more enjoyable for the students .
Question: What's the difference between technology use and technology integration?
ReplyDelete-I feel that there is a big difference between technology integration and technology use. To me technology use is using something that you already know how to. Generally, it is using something that is not considered new technology. This blog would be an excellent example of technology use. In a classroom technology use is something as simple as using light bulbs or utilizing powerpoint as an aid for lecturing. Teachers and people use technology in everyday situations and don't even realize it. However, technology integration is using technology that is new and exciting, OR using technology in a different way then previously used. I cannot give examples of this in my personal life because I do not integrate technology. I am a college student and cannot afford to be on the cutting edge of technology. In a classroom however, this would be using new technology to aid students that are in special ed. Last year in one of my education classes we were shown a video of teachers using ipods to record lessons and readings and then sending them home with students for review at home.
I would have to agree that technology integration should be new and exciting or used in a different way. It is important to remember however, for your view on technology use may not be the same for a teacher who is out of touch with new technology. For someone like you who is very wise with computers, a teacher who is sixty years old might be unfamiliar with the settings of a computer and how to use one. That is one aspect you should keep in mind when thinking about this question.
ReplyDeleteMy wonderings have helped me to look at my time in my PDS a great deal. Probably the easiest way for me to explain this is that it makes me wonder why and how. In fact that's what being an education major has made me do in general about a classroom setting. It has taught me that the education field constantly should be revising itself and learning from its previous endeavors. This is not something that is a new concept,for me it is just something that I did not realize, that is to say that I knew that teachers should constantly be changing and revising pedagogy and content and presentation, I just had never thought about the process to which this was done, and to me that is what a wondering is.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your point of view and thoughts on your wonderings. I really do agree with the fact that teachers have to persistently change their approach and style of teaching. It is a constant method of trial and error. By doing this, it makes the teacher better at her or his profession and makes the classes more enjoyable for the students .
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