Technology in the Classroom

We live in an ever changing world that is filled with technology. The students that we will be teaching are going to know alot about "the new things" . We, as teachers do not need to be left in the dark by not being able to incorporate technology in our classrooms. Instead of not having technology in the classroom all together, we need to have the students help us teach. When going into a unit that a teacher knows that technology can be used, the teacher can assign homework that uses that technology. By doing this, studentsa re able to use a tool that they enjoy in the classroom and are able to have fun and show some of their peers what they can do.
Podcasts can be great because the students can either create one or they can listen to them on their own or as a class and still get the subject that is being taught and at hand.
Blogs are great because students can post journals or they can poste stories that they enjoy or that they have wrote themselves.
Cell phones can be used by using text messaging when doing a poll or quiz in the classroom. They can also be used if a teacher wants to do an open phone test instead of an open book test.
Technology plays a very big part in our world, and we as teachers should enbrace that concept and let the student teach us while we teach them!!!