Lessons Learned

There were some really cool things to be learned as I read the articles and looked through the videos. I loved the things that ones that didn't just tell you that you should integrate technology, but that actually showed you how to do that in all different subject areas. I especially loved how they talked about how you need to relate it to their passions, and make it something that is real for them by using real data that they can actually relate. I think it is interesting because in the sense using technology the vidoe presentations stuck out to me far more than the articles that you just had to read.

One of the articles I did really enjoy was the WWW. It talked a lot about how the students are getting bored and how we can use technology in a different way then they are using it by let them be creators rather than just users of the technology. It also talked about the three way people search for happiness and the only one that doesn't work is pursuing pleasure. They said, "Chasing after what we want doesn't make us happy". I think that is really cool and so true. I also just thought it was so interesting to see and hear about all the technological advances that are coming forward and how it is changing our school traditions and system as a whole. I never thought about how having social networking, like Facebook, would decrease the levels of year books sold. These kind of things show how all encompassing this push in technology really is.