Reflection



I have enjoyed this class immensely. There are so many technology resources out there that I was not even aware of. Some of my favorite lessons were the Presentation on Professional Organizations, the Technology Lesson Demonstration, and the Web-Based Assessment.

For the Presentation on Professional Organizations, I had never heard of ISTE. I have been a member of some Professional Organizations, but none were as put together as the ISTE website. Their site was easy to navigate and there was a lot of useful information about using technology in the classroom. I would love to attend one of their seminars as well! From this lesson, the article that I plan to use in future classrooms is the article called “5 Tips for Making Digital Learning Accessible to All Students” by Krueger (2022). The article discussed assistive technology tools that you can use in the classroom. Supporting all students is important, and Krueger (2022) gave some useful tips like transcribing podcasts, using tools like Google to make content accessible, and captioning videos.

The Technology Lesson Demonstration and the Web-Based Assessment lessons were my other favorites. It was a challenge to think about how to incorporate the two technology tools that I chose into a lesson, but I loved learning to navigate the different sites. I know that students would enjoy both coding and making their own online stories. Scratch and Storyboard are great sites that I think would engage students, but also allow them to apply what they have learned.

Roblyer & Hughes (2019) define integrating technology into education as identifying problems, finding technology that can solve the problem, using those resources and assessing if they worked. The hardest thing can be finding the technology, but this class has helped me so much with knowing where to look and what to look for. I look forward to using these skills in my future classroom. Thank you!

Krueger, N. (2022, July 27). 5 Tips for making digital learning accessible to all students. ISTE. https://www.iste.org/explore/tools-devices-and-apps/5-tips-making-digital-learning-accessible-all-students

Roblyer, M. & Hughes, J. (2019). Integrating educational technology into teaching: Transforming learning across disciplines (8th ed.). Pearson.

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