Chapter 6

Response to Chapter 6: Digital Technologies in the Classroom
Please respond to the following question. In your response to this post on your blog page, make sure to include specific details from the chapter to support your opinions and statements. The responses should be 6-8 sentences, but do not need to be extremely long. Just make sure to give your response and support for your reasoning.
Responses are Due by Friday, October 14, 5:00 pm.

Question: Based on the information in chapter 6, would you prefer to teach in a classroom that had more or less digital technologies? Why or why not?

Answer:  I would prefer to teach in a classroom with more technologies.  Being a special education teacher it could really come in handy.  Each of the kids may be at different learning levels so useing different tools can help me teach them all at their own pace.  Each kid can use their own computers and do work on that. Also there are  ipads  that can have activies on them and there is alpha smart for kids to use for typing.  There are so many things you can have for your kids with technology and the more you have the better it can help you teach at times.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Audiovisual Technologies
For both audio and visual technologies, identify one traditional and one emerging technology from the book, and explain how you could potentially use all four devices in the classroom. Post your responses on your blog page you created for this class.


Traditional
Visual technology: An overhead projector is a great example for this.  Many teachers use this on a daily basis.  You can use this by showing your work on it for the kids to see.  Also another way is getting a worksheet copied and putting it up there on a transperency for the kids to follow along as you do it.
Audio technology: A tape recorder can be of great audio use in the classroom.  You can record readings and play it during class to go along with a book or your lesson.  


Emerging 
Visual technology:  A DVD player is a great visual use in the classroom.  This way you can pick specific parts from a video to show the class from scene selections and it'll make class fun but you don't have to go through the entire movie to get to it.
Audio technology:  An ipod can come in handy for most teachers.  You can have songs that may go with what your teaching to help your kids learn.