Technology Teachers

With today's technology advancing there are so many new programs coming out that we have never heard of. Some of these programs can be very beneficial to us as future teachers. I recently did a project for my Science Methods class and I used a new program that I had never heard of. I found this program to be very useful and could be useful in a classroom as well. As a future teacher I think that we need to step away from boring old power points, they don't engage the students anymore. Students are looking for programs that are exciting, ones that they can record their voice on and play it back to the class. Where they can add more than just words, but also pictures. The program that I used was similar to what some of my fellow classmates had used in the way that it could be turned into a movie. A lot of programs today have voice recording so that students and teachers can record a voice to go along with the pictures, this is also I think helpful for students who learn better by having an audiovisual.

Another tool that one of my classmates used that I also thought would be beneficial in the classroom was Toondoo. This allows the teacher to make little comics for the students. The teacher would be able to make one for a math problem and the students would be able to use the comic to help them solve the problem. It is a much more fun and engaging way than just giving the students a word problem. The students can also write their own math problems. A teacher could also use it to show the steps of a science experiment that they are going to be doing in their classroom, the possibilities are endless.

As a future teacher I think that it is important that we get to know these websites and become familiar with them. They are all different ways that we can get our future students engaged in our classrooms and make a fun learning environment.

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