IT645 Chptr 4 Q-2 Name some emerging technologies. How might they affect teaching and learning?

To me “emerging technology” refers to technology that is new and not yet have all the bugs worked out. It also signals that you are among the first to use it among your peers. New and emerging technologies in the classroom are often not new to the general public but new to cools because of cost and teachers ability to master new technology and represent it to students. For instance, palm pilots have are old technologies to business professionals, but not to students. Teachers are now including and purchasing classroom sets for math courses. They also are just very good tools for keeping some children organized.
Each subject has different technology tools to engage students and teachers. Often times the students are more aware of the new tools, then their teachers. Some of the old objects that required teachers to test students are no longer pertinent. For example, any student writing a research paper and having a computer can use the internet to help in research. The information gathered can be cited by using several software packages that automatically create correctly citing information in the necessary style.

After gathering information for a class paper, I was delighted to be able to email the URL and files to myself. This saved the cost of printing from the library. Also, the advent of the “jump drive” has proven a real asset. I can have a jump drive with 2 or 4 mega bytes worth of data and store student files, movies, pictures, and grades on a device the size of a half-stick of gum.

To service my special needs students better, I recently order a software package that will type into a document as you speak (voice recognition software). There are many adaptive and assisted living technologies that not only help students but teachers as well.

Interactive white boards allow teachers to help teachers interact with the classroom using a whiteboard and computer (SmartBoard). Through the study of technology applications foundations, including technology-related terms, concepts, and data input strategies, students learn to make informed decisions about technologies and their applications.

Today’s technologies allow for the efficient acquisition of information includes the identification of task requirements; the plan for using search strategies; and the use of technology to access, analyze, and evaluate the acquired information. Some technologies that make all of this possible are GPS devices, 3D games, virtual reality, interactive websites, digital cameras, and environmental scientific probes. MP3 files, podcasts, streaming video are all forms of communication to help learning become more dimensional using multiple intelligences (H. Gardner).

The purpose of education is to teach problem solving. By using technology students can select technology tools to help solve and create solutions. It often allows for results to be evaluated, changed and re-evaluating appropriate for the task, synthesize knowledge, create a solution, and evaluate the results

Students communicate information in different formats and to diverse audiences. A variety of technologies have been developed to make this possible. Some of these ways can be achieved by using blogs, podcasts, video productions webcasts, digital storytelling and wikipedia.

My only concern about technology is that teachers should wait long enough for business have worked out the bug and corks in the product. Otherwise, we will be chasing out tales trying to keep up with the latest version of a technology that may in sort time be out-dated.

I love technology and how it helps in the classroom and day to day living.