Reflection of Course

Is the summer really coming to an end? I can’t believe that the course is already coming to a close. Everything has gone by so quickly and I have learned so much and have so many things I can take with me on my teaching journey. At first, I was a bit worried about how the class was going to go because I had never seen a class set up like this and I did not know if I would understand the material or be able to grasp the functionality of the class structure. However, the class was set up so well and the quests were in order and easy to follow along. In this course, I learned how to integrate technology into the classroom setting in a variety of ways and through multiple mediums. I also learned how to use social media as a platform and how to expand this into my classrooms. With this, my students can expand their base line of technology all while learning and working together. I have also learned new ways to connect with other teachers so that I can learn from them and share ideas with them by fostering a community of educators. There is Google + and Twitter, both of which we had opportunities to utilize in the course and what we used to complete our course work. It is important for educators to integrate different technology into the classroom, so that the students will have the opportunity to learn and grow while utilizing their individual abilities. I believe that adding technology into the class gets the students to think and use their brains more while keeping them interested. It also allows them to be more creative by using the technology for the purpose of creating amazing presentations to show the class. With all of the technology the students will have the opportunity to connect more with each other in order to work on projects together. With the technology like Google Docs the students can start working on a document and the other students can log into it and continue working on the document right from where their peers before them stopped working. Moving forward, I intend to continue to find new ways to be able to integrate technology in my classroom so that my students will have ample opportunities to learn from the online community. As a PE teacher I will have the chance to utilize instructional videos and other filming applications to allow my students to learn skills from one another and video themselves, allowing for corrections and further skill advancement. Overall, this course has given me a chance to broaden my horizons and develop a new skills set that I will be able to utilize in my career. I believe a primary focus of this course was being able to teach and learn in a modern way, as new generations arise I believe it will be imperative to meet the children on their level and technology will allow me to do just that.