Reflection

When we began this semester, I thought that I knew a lot about technology and its integration in the classroom.  More specifically, I thought I knew a lot about the failure of technology in the classroom.  Like most of the other students in the classroom, I had seen a lot of PowerPoint presentations that bored me to tears, but seemed to be what teachers thought was "educational technology."  Throughout the course, I've learned to expand my definition of educational technology.  I probably never would have thought to incorporate a classroom blog or a classroom web-page in my future classroom if I had not experienced how efficient they were in this class.  Also, I have begun to look at educational technology differently.  While I always knew that Assistive Technology could help students with disabilities, I never thought that incorporating different assistive technologies, like UDL technologies, could help typical students.

As the semester is coming to a close, I hope to continue to learn more about technologies that can support the different learning styles of my students.  In addition, I hope to learn more about the current and emerging technologies that may be particularly helpful in the classroom.  Finally, I hope that I will learn about the technologies that my students are using and be able to either incorporate them in the classroom, or be able to make comparisons between educational technologies and everyday technologies to highlight the application of educational technology features in the real world.