The Blog Quiz Response to the Tech Counts Articles

Through this class, we, as future teachers, know the benefits of technology based learning. It can be cited from numerous examples found in our texts and in our projects. However, these articles illustrate the sporadic occurrences of applying technology in the classroom. The isolated bubble that internet restriction places on students, as well as traditional non- technology-based projects, limit the learning process of the student.

In my experience this semester, I have gained the knowledge of interacting with new technologies, which has improved the way in which I render my ideas on the page and in the digital world. In addition, the redefinition of what literacy actually is, with the advent of the read/write web, has helped me gain a greater understanding of the function of an ELA educator.

The connection that I am seeing with discussions is the importance of students having fun with the educational process and having them bring their world into the classroom. This is seen the distress felt by Randy Herrera when he steps on school grounds. His description in the second paragraph of the student voice article, paints him not as a teenager but a functional member of the Flat World. With the reluctance of technology in his classroom, we can also feel his dwindling levels of motivation, and hope that we never subject our students to that.