My Beliefs

I believe that using technology in the classroom is a great idea. At the rate technology is expanding and growing, the students in our classrooms will need to learn the basic uses of technology at a young age so that they will be able to use more complex technology when they get older. It is really obvious how technology is becoming such a large part of the students' lives, and if they are interested in technology at home, it is a good idea to bring that technology into the classroom so the students express that sense of interest in school. As teachers, it is important to take advantage of opportunities given to you, and technology is definitely one of those opportunities. I know many older teachers may see technology as being unnecessary, but since we are still young and have had experiences with many technology tools, we know the advantages of using technology and know how to integrate it into the classroom.
However, as I mentioned in the blog entry below, I don't feel that students should get too comfortable with technology. School is school, and there is no room for LOL's and :)'s in classroom education. As teachers, it is important to enforce rules about these careless and easy mistakes crawling into the students' papers. I think that if teachers really make an effort to drill it into the students' heads when to use these and when to not, it will benefit the students in the end. It will help with the professionalism of the students when they are older, and it will help them to have more control when they are writing their future papers.