More Reflections

Video helps overhaul district's curriculum
By: Laura DeVaney, eSchool News

Baltimore County's schools are proud of their efforts in utilizing advanced technology to benefit their students. They are using video-on-demand in order to help those visual learners in their classrooms. Many other schools are doing the same thing, but Baltimore County has formed a team of teachers so that they may decide the best way to use this technology across the curriculum and all subject matter. I think that it is a great way to try and reach the visual learners, as most 21st century students are, because of the technology that we have grown up with all of our lives. We are used to technical gadgets and devices and can adapt our use of them very quickly.

If wired right, computers do belong in classrooms
By: Bob Sipchen, latimes.com

This article was very interesting and insightful. It talked about many different viewpoints of the importance of technology in today's classrooms. Some software seems to be effective in helping some students learn. I don't think there will be a way to engage all students at the same time in the way that they want to learn. Some are visual, some are kinesthetic and have to actually have hands-on experience in order to understand something. The kinesthetic learners probably do not prefer using computers. I know that it is beneficial for students to know and understand how to use computers and other technological devices, yet I am not sure that it should take over how we introduce all subject matter to the students. I still want my students to be able to look up words in a dictionary, instead of searching Google. I'm afraid that, someday, our society will lose our ingenuity and resourcefulness in the technology era. We might forget how we came to those conclusions and how we invented the new technology gadgets. Our intelligence might actually decrease because of overwhelming lack of use of our brains and relying on computers to tell us what to think and what is right. This is something that society needs to be aware of and caution against in the future.