Christine Pack
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EDU-225
August 26, 2016
Entry 2: Technology to Enhance Instruction
Integrating Instructional Technology
Effective technology integration occurs when the use of technology is transparent,
routine, and when technology supports curricular goals (Digregerio, 2010, page 257). Integrated
technology ought to support knowledgeable assignments that allows all scholars to be
academically tested and well prepared with any modern technology tool. Technology users in an
essential operational transformation might become an importance in achieving their major
progress in production. A diversity of schools are open to exploring the accurate prospective of
technology is obtainable for educating scholars. Integrating technology in a classroom will help
mutually scholars and educators. Educators are presently using educators websites, digital
devices, and collaborative whiteboards to assist education in a classroom.
Insert Name of Specific Technology Here: Educators websites
Instructors can use educators websites to support the enhancement of education. Educators web
sites must be intended for helping educators in finding an online resource more rapidly. The
educators websites will support ease of education by educators using discussion forums, lesson
plans, and thematic units. Educators website will also be used to learn by stationing
broadcasting correlated to a lesson or material that searches into added complexity. Educators
websites will also be used for scholars and educators to partake in discussions which allows them
to work out difficulty subjects composed. Also, educators websites will help improve education
by containing various online books, educators to share resources, and materials with scholars.
Insert Name of Specific Technology Here: Digital devices
Additionally schools are relating portable learning into courses and schoolrooms as a way
of taking improvement for all of the assistances electronical devices have to propose.
Cellphones, e-readers, iPads, and notebooks are all gradually becoming the tool of choice for
todays educators (Duncan, 2012, page, 1). Portable education suggests scholars and educators
added suppleness in a different method for education. Educators have used mobiled devices to
aid scholars in finding dissimilar presentations that will support them to better understanding the
lessons. The iPod touch is easy to use and it comes with built in Wi-Fi capability, making it easy
for children to have access to the internet for projects (Wegener, 2015, pg. 15). Educators use
the iPod to improve education by turning the iPod into an e reader which permits scholars to
informal entrance to an allotted book. Digital device will be used in curriculums through
assigned valuations to scholars that will be easily enjoyed at home or at school.
Insert Name of Specific Technology Here Interactive white board
New advance of the now century skill for scholars, researchers have shown substantially
increases in knowledge impelled over times by including interactive white board. Educators
across the United States are applying the white board to aid motivation in scholars and stimulate
on line presentation. Educators use the interactive white board to incorporate numerous objects
in the lesson plans for instance pictures, a website, and composition that scholars will relate
through. Use of the collaborating white board, educators will inspire eagerness in a classroom by
proposing amusing, chock-full instructions. The smart board will allow teachers to stream
educational videos, use pre-made templates, and use interactive lesson activities throughout the
smart board software (Duncan, 2012, pg. 2). Using an interactive white board in a classroom
will contribute to scholars with a different education experience and will aid them in building
collaboration and improved communiqu abilities.
Pros and Cons of using Technology to Facilitate Learning
The development of new technology not only benefits scholars in learning more
proficiently, but allows them to acclimate to the fast pace technical situation they are rising up in.
In a situation where each scholar has their personal computers or sharing amongst fellow
students, additional scholars are eagerly involved after related to education in a one on one
talking situation. This must be credited to the information that in a one on one education
situation, several scholars may perhaps be fine-tuning the educator out. Though, for more or less
schools, the quantity of problems of usage technology will be associated to the aids from
integrating the technology as revealed overhead. Some benefit on or after the use of technology
in a classroom includes assisting scholars to focusing for a lengthier time, constructing scholars
more eager about knowledge, and permitting scholars with abilities for learning at their
individual stride. Some drawbacks can frequently effect from economic concerns. Not all schools
will be able to have the funds for the several machineries of new technology designs that are
intended to be used in each schoolroom. When the technology is acquired, upkeep and
maintenance will become quite expensive. Occasionally there might be problems with out-ofdate hardware and software mechanisms that will cause concerns while instructing. Unless the
teacher is very familiar with technology, an IT expert might need to come out and fix the issue;
resulting in more expenses for the school (Wegener, 2015, pg. 14).
Wired and Wireless Classrooms
Wired schoolrooms consists of technology procedures that are linked to a schoolroom
server. Every computer is linked to a router that originally connects to all servers. Every
computer is immobile and are linked by the use of a cable. Safety protocol is customary to every
computer with explicit procedures for each operator. Scholars have no right of entry to websites
that are not permitted by safety procedures. Schoolrooms who are wireless are linked by the use
of a wireless admittance plug or Wi Fi with procedures that are permitted to moving from place
to place in the rooms. Wireless procedures like tablets and laptops create education at ease for
youngsters by means of it is at ease to move everywhere.
Conclusion
To sum up, technology is the means to the forthcoming for thinkers of these generations.
Technology tool will prolong knowledge in commanding habits when productively incorporated
into the curriculums. Technology proves to aid educators and scholars with methods to work
together, a means to accessing current main source materials, and a chance for educators to
prompt their appreciativeness.
References
Digregorio, P., & Sobel-Lubezki, K. (2010). The effects of interactive whiteboards
(IWBs) on student performance and learning: A literature review. Journal of educational
technology systems, 38(3), 255-312
Duncan, D. K., Hoekstra, A. R., & Wilcox, B. R. (2012). Digital devices, distraction, and
student performance: does in-class cell phone use reduce learning? Astronomy education review,
11(1), 1-4.
Wegener K. K. (2015). Overview of learning theory, instructional design, development,
implementation, and assessment of an Introduction to web development course incorporating
21st century technology. Journal Of applied learning technology, 5(3), 13-18.
