Prompt #5

Teachers can help to facilitate and inspire student creativity and learning by using technology in many ways. They can use the internet to connect anything they are learning in the classroom to real-world situations. Technology can also be used to help create games or other interesting ways to help students learn. in order to create "digital age learning experiences" in the classroom teachers can do simple things such as using the smart board rather than just a whiteboard for a science lesson. It's a change of pace from the same old science lesson and students can do much more with an electronic whiteboard than they can with a marker and a traditional whiteboard. Teachers showcase standard three when they use and type of technology with proficiency. Standard four deals with teaching students responsibility of technology. This can be done when explaining how to cite information from a website in order to follow copyright laws. Lastly standard six talks about using technology to help yourself grow professionally. As a future teacher technology plays an extensive role in organizing my portfolio that will one day help me get a job.