Lessons Learned

High tech learning refers to the constantly evolving hardware, software, and networking tools and resources available to those wishing to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values through formal instruction or free inquiry. I believe high tech learning is just the beginning, the technology is just getting better and better. Just in my life time I have seen so many changes and I can only imagine what’s going to be invented in the next 20 years.
Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. We all know facebook has become so popular over the past 5 years. I think wow to myself to think I can talk to all my old friends now who a few years ago I couldn’t of ever talked too. I think social networking is great and is only going to keep growing over time. I think it’s a great way to communicate to people. In a classroom you could have a facebook group for your class to get information to them as needed. Great things happen with social networking in my eyes.
Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. As I was in field, all I saw was technology being used. She didn’t even have papers to pass out to the students. Her classroom was field with computers, and things of technology oriented. It was so over my head of all the stuff she used, that I was blown away. She showed me so many cool websites to use and showed how they can be incorporated into her lessons. I now realize the importance of why we need to know how to use technology.