Technology in the classroom

So here I am, older, but not really THAT old. I was going through school at a time when we still had books, film strip projectors and VCR's. Really now that I think about it, one of the 'modern' TV's we had at the Intermediate School was a projection TV and that was a big deal. That is what I saw President Reagan give a speech about the Space Shuttle Challenger and her astronauts.

Now I am learning again in school and the technology is wildly different than what I left 22 years ago. Teachers can take polls from their student's smartphones, YouTube videos are played through projectors onto smartboards that teachers and students can interact with. Classes can be taken online through virtual schools that are run by the State Department of Education. Physical libraries are being replaced by computer labs.

I have had to relearn how to learn, how I get the information, how I have to present the information but thankfully not so much how I process the information. I like it, I think it is incredible the amount of resources that I have available to me just through the internet, and for FREE! Yay!

I am enjoying  my experience so far. Coming into it relatively cold, not having been in a regular classroom in 20 years, I have had to adapt to this relatively quickly. Students now have technology integrated into their learning experience from Pre-K!