Technology+Integration

​​I am discussing Technology integration and how I feel it is important in the classroom. This is an assignment for my education technology class, and it has been very useful for me because now I understand a what a useful tool technology is in the classroom. ** Technology Integration ** The video I selected to reflect on from the Edutopia website is, “Digital Youth Portrait: Cameron” The description of the video is, “At school, at home, and on the road with his hockey team, Cameron experiments and innovates with his laptop, editing software, and homemade green screen”(Edutopia 5/22/09). I liked this video because I was surprised at how young Cameron was and how many things he was already doing with technology. Most of the time I think of kids now days as playing video games and not learning other things, but Cameron was integrating technology with his hockey game, and school lessons. He was also helping teachers in the after school programs to make the program better. I enjoyed learning that he got the school on board with letting him make a green screen for his school. What I learned from this video was that it is okay to let students use technology in as many ways that they can. It gets them interested and excited about what they are learning and they may even show me how to use more technology in the class and with my lessons. I feel that it is important to integrate technology in today’s classrooms because students will have more input in their lessons and it may even make them more interested and excited about learning. I feel that if they are able to create new and exciting ways of learning from technology they will be learning even more than what I can teach my students and that is a part of what teaching is about. Letting the students develop and learn. I understand that not all students will be excited about school, but I hope that by integrating new ideas and technology that my students will develop a better understanding of the material presented to them. I feel that I can use ideas like what Cameron’s to make my lessons more exciting and have the students create video of what they are learning and show it to the class. This will get my students involved and I would hope make the lesson more fun, and in depth.

​ Bibliography 1. http://www.edutopia.org/video