First Blog Post 6/29/09

We as educators should integrate technology into the curriculum because times are changing in the world around us and students in today's classroom need to learn how to use technology so that when they get out of school they will not be behind. They must be able to use technology since the world we live in is based on using technology in everyday life. By integrating technology into the curriculum it gives the students a different way to learn and understand the information instead of the old boring way of taking notes off of a blackboard or from an overhead projector. By using technology students are more engaged in the lesson, and might retain more of the information if they are interested in the way the information is being presented to them. Also, by using technology in the classroom it gives the students a chances to surf the web and find out so much more about a topic they are researching instead of being limited to the books that are in the school library. Using the internet to do research should allow the students to find out everything they need to know about the topic they are researching, and it also should save them time since using the internet is much quicker then using books. Hopefully as the times continue to change educators will realize how important it is to integrate technology into the curriculum and how much more the students might benefit if they do use technology more often in the classroom setting.