Technology Savvy

Technology is a great tool to use in the classroom and has grown and advanced tremendously in education. Many teachers are afraid to utilize technology because they have very different philosophies about teaching. I, on the other hand, completely think that it should be utilized in the classroom at any time possible. Children these days are so advanced and understand how to use technology at an early age. There are many ways that a teacher can incorporate technology into their lessons. The article written by Dalton and Grisham, talks about an online source called Wordle. Wordle can be used for many things in the classroom such as memorizing vocabulary or brainstorming about a certain subject.

Another example of technology the article talks about is using power point. Power point is a very important tool in deaf education. The students use power point in order to learn to write stories together. The students usually play a game or make something and then use power point to write about it. This enables them to add words in different colors, such as making the words red that are their high frequency words. Power point also enables the students to input pictures and animation. This can help the students pay attention to the lesson or connect what they wrote with to a picture like a story book. Also in power point, paragraphs written or pictures drawn by the student can be scanned in and added to the power point. This is a great way to incorporate the children's work into the lesson. Here is an example of a slide template that could be used to talk about Easter:

What are some other examples of how to incorporate technology in classroom?