As an older student, I feel that I have come a long way in regards to my comfort level and acceptance of the growing use of technology in both my life personally, educationally, and professionally. When I first entered college in 1989, the school still had a writing lab that consisted of typewriters and were just establishing the use of computers as data-word machines. I have always been accepting of the use of technologies and their growths in use in our lives (even though I resisted getting a cell phone until last year).
I got my first computer in 1995 and it was mainly used for entertainment. Soon after, when I re-entered college, I began to use the computer as an expensive typewriter. Although I was not resistant to the use of computers, I really had no practical use for the computer at that time other than for writing papers. I also began to have to use computers more often at work in my previous job in EMS. It really was not until the last 4 to 5 years when I started using DSL at home that I began to use the computer in more diverse ways.
I feel that the use of computers and technology in the classroom in not only helpful, efficient, and a valuable tool for the teacher, but also is becoming more and more essential and relevant to the lives of our students as well as needed for their futures. During my student teaching, I was placed at Moore High School. Moore is a school that has a laptop program for its students. I was very impressed with how effective the program was in not only lesson planning and delivery, but also in how the students could become instant involved in discussion, research, and writing. The experience was very enlightening, especially in comparison to some of the other schools in which I had taught and been in.
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