Blog Post #7

This course continually shows us more and more about technology each week.  I am learning and doing things that I have never done before.  A month ago, I had no idea how to create or maintain a blog.  Today, turning in assignments and completing classwork, often is primarily composed through using online resources.  We college students turn in all of our weekly assignments and tests through our Sakai terminals.  Most of the paper works completed are done during class and are very few.  Professors and students alike communicate through the internet.  I think that technology makes communication more easily accessible and basically faster.
Teachers in today's classroom are learning how to provide more innovative and exciting ways to expand education.  Dr. Strange's YouTube video "Using iMovie and the Alabama Virtual Library in Kindergarten" shows us that we as college students need to get better equipped to educate our students.  Mrs. Davis, is an amazing media specialist and has been a great help to me in other classes.
Students are learning at a faster rate than we did in the past.  We as educators must realize that our students may soon be teaching us new ways to create and learn.  I know that my own children have helped me with things in this very course.  It is astonishing how quickly their young minds expand when technology is entered into the educational equation.  The idea of being a good teacher is a much more broad statement than it once was.  To be a good teacher, we all must better educate ourselves via technology.  We can not expect our students to learn from us if we are not thoroughly prepared.  Lesson plans must include vigorous technical implementation on top of the normal focus for the intended lesson.  Making our lessons more innovative and interesting will not only capture our students attention, but it will ensure that we are giving them our very best efforts in educating them.