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===Since starting the class I have realized just how far behind the curve I am with technology in the classroom. My first year teaching I hope to catch up on the technology that is already in the classroom. As a teacher I will also be learning throughout the year different ways to implement the technology at hand to keep my classrooms interactive and constantly learning. So in my eyes my first year teaching can make or break how effective I will be as a teacher with the current technology continuing to improve my knowledge on the constant changing resources to help me make learning fun for my students.Such as twitter, skype and different typed of google docs to helps keep students interactive.I also feel that all the resources in today's classroom will help me keep the students parents involved with the progress of their kids. As my teaching career furthers I can see students becoming more familiar with technology giving teachers a greater opportunity for virtual learning through web based chats and classes.I know some of its out there now, but i feel as technology advances and becomes more common this will be a greater possiblymedia type="custom" key="12541970" align="right". ===

=== Students are a new generation born into many technological assets that are readily at our disposal .We are what Prensky refers to as Digital Natives because in the classroom and education environment it is all we really know. Where as our older educators are referred to as Digital Immigrants because of their lack of knowledge toward the new technology craze in the education field, also not being born into the technology age makes it more difficult to learn and understand how to implement these tools throughout life and the classroom.Prensky mentions that today kids are so used to all the advantages technology has to offer in the classroom and that older teacher just don't see the reason for it. They feel that it should be the same as when they were in school with hard books and lecture, where now students are becoming more self directed learners able to fins solutions out on the world wide web if they have issues.Instead of wasting time reading through a book to find an answer. As mentioned by Prensky "it is better for the Digital Immigrants to adapt and teach us in our language than to have us Digital Natives go backward."Today's the age of technology and this helps to put information at your finger tips with a click of a button.The faster educators adapt to this the better off the will be with holding their classroom to higher new age standards. ===

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