Reflective Blog #2 - Using technology in elementary education -5

Lentz, K., Boe, N., Implementing technology in elementary classrooms. Technology and Children, Article, 9(2), 19-20. Retrieved February 27, 2010 from EBSCO Host Academic Search Complete.

This article calls the readers attention to the importance of technology in the classroom. Teachers and administration need to embrace the technological movement of integrating technology into the classroom. It's not only teaching how to use the peripherals, but how to utilize the components to enhance learning. Just as textbooks are used, so too are the computers, software and hardware that accompanies them. Teachers have to embrace a new way of instructing students. One example given was that the teacher had to learn to facilitate learning because in traditional instruction the teacher knows what the completed task should look like. With technology, the student knows the intended outcome that they want, and have to use the technology to produce that result. Building technology in the classsrooms involves more than just the school, it can also include the community as well.