It's NOT about the Technology

I completely agree with Mrs. Hines in her blog "It's Not about the Technology". It is 100% true that technology is absolutely nothing if the teachers don't get creative with what they are given. The teachers have to learn how to use the technology for themselves and also learn how to use the technology as a teaching method. At first, teaching using technology will be a little slow because the teachers have to get used to teaching a different way than they are used to teaching. There will be a lot of trial and error to see how the students react to the technology and how much they learn using it.

I know that during my Senior year at Hoover High School the teachers had absolutely no idea how they were going to incorporate the new technology into their lessons. Some of the teachers used the technology in really creative ways while others just used the technology as just a regular means of teaching. They would put their existing notes under the Elmo while the creative teachers would put their notes into a PowerPoint presentation with fun colors to make learning more interesting. The technology has made grading tests much faster because the students could put the answers into the clickers and the computer would do the grading, giving the teacher less work to do at home.