EME Blog

    The ELA technology standards are very important within schools and teachers should know and follow them. I would like to become more prepared on all the ELA technology standards, so I can be an efficient teacher. I think the one that requires the most learning from my part would definitely be the writing standards. I think this because writing is my weakest element and I would like to become better at it.     I think the technology software or applications I will be using is the Internet. I plan on teaching kindergarten or first grade and this is the most appropriate for them. As a teacher, I can pull up the websites for the younger kids and they would be able to use a computer or a tablet. Personally, I think this age group is still a little to young for the Internet, so they would not be on it too much.     While making the Newsletter Design assignment, I used the new skills I learned in class. I learned how to add colo...

     As a student, I have used Microsoft Word throughout middle school and high school and all of my teachers have used it too. Microsoft Word has always been what we used for homework, assignments, and essays as students and the teachers using it to post instructions on the projector. However, through the past couple years, we have stopped using Microsoft Word and started using GoogleDocs. I think we really started using GoogleDocs because it automatically saves all our work and we have share what we are working on with others easily and it goes along with GoogleClassroom.      I have had a lot of experience with copyright and fair use of materials from being in the IB program at my high school. From being in this program, we have had to turn our essays and assignments in on websites that tell our teacher if we plagiarized our work or not. We also focused on how to site all of our sources correctly to make sure we would not get in ...

    The reason for integrating technology is to be a support and a means to the instruction necessary to meet today's standards of learning. Technology in the school can be seen a dministratively, for presentations, for preparing lessons, communicating, and teaching. These can assist the teacher when completing tasks, creating and planning instruction or support the teacher when lecturing and giving a presentation, enhance classroom teaching, and communication.      Technology can be a personalized, focused reinforcement for learning. Students may need more than the teacher’s direct instruction to learn, so for deeper learning, students need to interact with the material but crowded classrooms and the time constraints make it difficult for any the teacher to provide one-​to-​one help for every student. Technology can help students review, reinforce, and expand on what they are learning.      There are ISTE standards for both st...