Chapter Six

Chapter six explains the concept of technology and education merging together. Teachers now are motivating their students to learn because instead of lecturing, they guide students. With the help of technology, students can learn independently and with more freedom. With the education and technology coming together there are still some hurdles to overcome, such as budget, lack of training for teachers and lack of support. These are the obstacles that are holding technology back in many schools.
The plans for technology integration into the classroom are not simple because of the need for properly trained teachers. Also, the lack of technology in many schools does not make it easily accessible. Teachers have to plan ahead to use computers and technologies in the classroom. They must also plan what they are going to be teaching and the objective behind it all. I think that one of the best ways is to create learning centers so that every student can have a access to a computer at some point.
I learned that the web can be very useful for students to research. The Web evaluation that we made can be useful to many teachers. They can give them to their students so that they can evaluate the website they visited. This also allows you to check on their process of research. Making the evaluation was not that difficult but finding a way to make it useful for students in various ways may have been. I think it is important for children to research the Internet because it contains a lot of useful information and has access to multiple websites.