Digital Bog Post # A

Digital Blog Post # A



Transforming Learning Technologies with New Technologies, has a ton of informative information for blending traditional class tools and infusing it with a digital identity. Chapter one of the book "Becoming a 21st Century Teacher" discusses in depth on how to do so. I grew up in an era when the digital revolution had not fully metastasized,reading through the chapter i see that our new generations all have been immersed in this educational technological revolution. As a future educator i will need to grasp the information of the new technology and blend it with some of the traditional to have a state of the art teaching environment.



First and foremost the idea that jumped out at me the most was,a technological-based learning environment.When i first read this, the first thing that came to my mind was computer labs.That is what i was used to when i was in grade school,but no the book was speaking of another type of environment. It was speaking of a class website,blogs and wikis where the teacher and students may interact with each other even outside the classroom environment to message one another post grades ...etc This type of learning is a whole different ball game then what i was used to, we were not even allowed to have phones or laptops on in class let alone class websites. Here is an article with a little bit more insight on this topic:    http://technologysource.org/article/preparing_teachers_to_use_learning_objects/

The second concept which i found striking was the idea called iGeneration. Group of  grade school students who were born in the late ninety's and on. It is interesting to know this is the generation that has never known a world without the internet.I personally did not even have a cellphone till i was in the ninth grade. I did grow up with Aol and dial up, but i do not consider myself part of the igeneration since i was born in 1992 and still remember my teacher playing us VHS tapes of Reading Rainbow in the 1st grade.It is however good to know that the igeneration has technological access to educational material that my generation could have only dreamed of and that is good for learning.It is particularly good for learning because i came across this video that shows the history of technological advance s in education.

The last and final concept that i found intriguing was the concept of a "technology based office" at first glance i guessed that this concept would pertain to virtual school teachers,boy was i wrong. This concept talks about a teachers overall computer laptop or desktop in class or virtual school as his or her nucleus.The desktop today incorporates numerous applications emails,grades,evaluations student software.This means that teachers in this generation and the next to come will be ever more connected to there work space and students and parents,wherever they go there classroom goes.

All in all to conclude this chapter is just the beginning of immersing ourselves in this book Transforming Learning Technologies with New Technologies. I have grasped the concept of some new emerging educational technological teaching trends.In future i am sure the book will elaborate in detail ways technology is helping educational learning even more and hopefully the text will be informative.

Resources:

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.