As a future educator, learning different ways to teach is always something that you can never know to much about. So learning about astonishing ways to intrigue my students, is something exciting. I was amazed by how creative people have become with incorporating technology into learning. It has made me think into how I will be teaching math to my students. Instead of teaching math the way I was taught, I have to consider thinking outside of the box. How can I improve the way I was taught, into modern technology? I feel instead of thinking this as a challenge, I would consider it more as an opportunity. Its honestly a privilege to be able to use technology in the classroom; my students will be more intrigued in learning on iPad’s or playing games without even knowing that they are learning. Throughout the experience we were required to go on scratch and create a greeting card and a game. When they first had initially showed us how it looked like at the end, I was excited to begin. When we began to mess around with coding with Elsa and Anna, it was easy to work with; as the levels got more challenging, it wasn’t as easy. Once we got a hang of it, our assignment for the week was to create the greeting card and game using scratch. At first it was difficult and challenging to try and get each individual part moving and changing the way I wanted it to go. As I started to explore more, and read the helpful steps they had provided for us on blackboard; I started to get the hang of it. Another assignment we were required to do was a lesson plan on Explain Everything. Explain Everything is …show more content…
Not only that but it has also opened my eyes. Even though I am young and surrounded by technology all the time, I never realized how advanced technology has become in the education system. Becoming a young educator has given me an advantage to when I become an educator. The fact that we are incorporating more technology into teaching students, makes it easier for us young educators because we grew up learning how to use technology. This encourages me to learn even more about how to use technology in my classroom, it will be an exciting adventure for me; I have always been good, when it comes to …show more content…
By doing this, it will help me be a step ahead of the game. This makes me more of an outstanding candidate for a job position. As we get into the future, the more schools will be looking for teacher that are good with technology. Another goal is, to challenge myself into always finding more ways then one way to use the technology I am presented with; the more ways I learned how to use it, the more ways I can relate to my students into understanding their reason of thinking. I can honestly say, this experience has made me even more thrilled about the day that have my own classroom and begin my