For the most part, teachers turn their cheeks at technology with disgust and instead of embracing and incorporating technology into the classroom and using it as an educational tool they are missing out on so many wonderful opportunities. As an educator, I would love to learn new and innovative ways of using technology as a teaching tool. Something as simple as a search engine can cut a student’s research time in half. Instead of diving nose first into one hundred different textbooks in the library, searching one phrase on an educational research database will get them thousands of results with one click of a button. It’s true that teachers need to be open and willing to play around with technology. One thing that looks really interesting and it something I’d like to learn more about it the DJ Software,. It can be used to teach different mathematical concepts like fractions, ratios, and percentages. Times have changed, and embracing this can make it so much more fun for the students in the classroom and will role over into their lives many years after they graduate. My favorite quote from this was, “Think like a teacher, teach like a thinker”.
