Chapter 4

Enhancing lesson development with technology is a great idea. One thing for teachers it is a useful tool to use technology to create their lesson plans. Teachers have an advantage to search for great ideas on the internet that they can enhance in their lesson. At the center where I work the teachers use a tool that is call teaching strategies they are able to do there lesson plans on that site and are able to input documentation on their of the children and the parents are able to create there own user name and password and can check their children's progress and it is must easier then writing. As for students they would enjoy technology tool activities. I believe that they will be more involve and engage to learning. When I went to go observe a 11th grade classroom they took a test about 8 questions and they were all to be a written response and I was so surprise that is a lot of writing and students get tired of writing if they had an electronic test or quizzes it would be more easier for them. In this website about How To Integrate technology is a helpful to include technology in the classroom.

Another thing that caught my attention in this chapter was about assessing and evaluating students. At the center where I work at we also use tools on assessing and evaluating our children. One tool that we use here is called an ASQ.  It is online and we login as a teacher and go threw the questions to see if the children are meeting those developments. These assessing helps us to see where the children are at and it helps us to create our lessons plans. For example if a children is falling behind on a development it helps us to integrate it on our lesson plans to help them. We include activities that will help the children be accomplish in that specific development.

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The third thing that caught my attention was using electronic grading software. I think that using an electronic to grade our students is quick and easy. It is must better than having to keep it track in a book and what if the student does it's work or doesn't do it's work some days and the grade changes then there will be a lot of erasing a teacher will have to do that later on a teacher will not be able to tell what is the accurate grade number because of all the erasing. Technology makes it more easier for grading. If a teacher needs to change a grade in a specific assignment it will automatically change the percentage and it will calculate on it's own and it does not take up time because if a teacher does it on a book and say they are not a math teacher but instead a reading teacher and have trouble or by mistake calculate it wrong. Now in days all the teachers in the school system use an electronic to grade and it is quick and easy for them.

In conclusion being able to integrate technology in our teaching, lesson plans is a great idea. I think including technology it benefits both the teachers and the children. As a teacher we want our children to be able to be engage and be motivated to learn and one way to do this is by including technology in the lesson plan. Technology is a way that students will be able to be more activate and involve in an assignment. As I mentioned just like a student gets tired of writing with a piece of paper and pencil I think a teacher also gets tired from writing and what better way to make things easier to grade is by using an electronic software.

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Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2017). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson.