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This article talks about pros and cons with young children and using technology in the classroom. He says that it needs to be done at particular times and should take away from the social development that these children at this age are learning. Timing is everything to technology and children at a young age. Parents and teachers need to take in account, when they are using the technology application what are they missing out on? Social interactions, play time, nap time or just free time. This time could also be a time where the parent and the child can spend time together to learn and teach each other about what they are doing with the technology.

This article talks about the use of technology in early childhood classes.

I like the article but one thing stuck out to me and that is "Preschool and kindergarten children should first be introduced to computers one at a time, or in small groups." I think this quote is controversial, to me that is. I think technology needs to be introduced to students at a later age like maybe 4th grade. Just definitely not preschoolers and kindergarteners. Lets say you show a kindergarten child a picture of an apple and you only show them pictures of things and you do not integrate actual apples or trips they will only perceive the item as what they saw. My main point is if you show a picture of a red apple and say this is what an apple looks like they will memorize an apple as being that red apple on the screen. Then when they go take a test on fruits and the question says: What color is an apple? A) red B) green or C) red or green. The child will pick A when the correct answer would be C. They will pick A because they only saw a red apple during that lesson.

I really like how this article addresses the DAP of computers in an early childhood classroom.

James Dukes students are learning through technology in their day-to-day classroom situations. Official district enrollment set at 6,130 students. Students at James Dukes Elementary School are moving ahead in 21st century technology, a fact that Principal Pauline Leavitt emphasized in a PowerPoint presentation to the school board at its Oct.

This is a great example of using computers and technology to create differentiated learning within one classroom.

As a special education major, this article really relates to daily activities I can experience in the classroom. Technology gives special education teachers an opportunity to watch students learn on their own at their own levels, rather than teaching at an intermediate level where all kids can learn.

I so enjoyed reading this article about new ideas of learning with students. It is imperative that we, as future teachers, learn to engage students where they are at and also where they are going. It's incredible to think how fast computers and technology have changed our lives, however this fast-paced world of new gizmos and gadgets is the "norm" for our students. When the article talked about, "The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them." It will be critical that we keep up with the ever-changing types of technology so that we can best serve our students.

I found this article very interesting! The classroom was more like an office. The students have their own personal learning desks and cubicles. I think that learning will be maximized when each students individual needs are met, and they are in this classroom Designers of the Minnesota School of Environmental Studies (SES) were years ahead of the curve when it came to creating collaborative classrooms that would one day accommodate learning technologies that in 1995 had yet to be conceived--let alone developed and marketed to the educational sector.

This article was interesting for me to read being a teacher! I think that it's very cool that they have students desks look more like offices. This school is called the "Zoo School" and it serves 400 students in the 11th and 12th grade. They get to customize their workstations like employees do at work! They don't get taught at their desks they all get back together and sit at a longer table much like college and learn that way! I think this is neat and a different idea! They said in their article that the students were "thriving here" so I think they have caught on to something wonderful!

This is a controversial article that in some ways has its merits but I find it to have many problems in getting it implemented in most school systems at least at the present time.

This article shows how teachers are using Skype to allow students to view research scientists around the world.

You don't often find a group of 75 fifth graders from a public school in Virginia interacting directly with scientists based at Palmer Station, Antarctica, but that's exactly what takes place every year at Herman L. Horn Elementary in Vinton, VA.

The teachers and administrators at our case study sites expressed different reasons for bringing technology into their schools. Many teachers at case study schools cited a belief that computer-based technologies could provide support for thinking processes.

With the help of modern technology, students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School are talking to and learning from kids all over the world. Elementary students in Charlotte are going "global" with a technology initiative that links them to students from around the world.

This article talks about how elementary students are talking and learning with kids all a crossed the world! The students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School meet once a week with their teacher and they go through video and an online and ePal program! I have heard of schools doing this with high school students but never with elementary children! I think this is a great way for students to communicate with each other and what an awesome experience to talk to someone in another country! I bet they could/have learn a lot from each other!

Essays on Teaching | By: Catherine Balmeo (02/13/12) Views: 880 One of the challenges that educators face at present is on how to address the students' diversity in the classroom. Dr. Silver emphasized on the students' diversity that encompass readiness, gender, culture, home environment, learning styles, intelligence preferences and interest (Laureate,2007).

This was a very interesting article about the pros and cons of technology. There are many good examples of how technology has improved student growth but at the same time an argument is made about keeping technology as we are laying off teachers and getting rid of jobs.

In this technology-centric classroom, students are bent over laptops, some blogging or building Facebook pages from the perspective of Shakespeare's characters. One student compiles a song list from the Internet, picking a tune by the rapper Kanye West to express the emotions of Shakespeare's lovelorn Silvius.

This article is about how teachers have become dissatisfied with the way they are being evaluated. What's worse is that the evaluations are coming at a time when budgets are being slashed and layoffs are up.

This article is a good article to get some contrast on technology in schools. I think it is important to understand both sides.

This article is about how technology is used in the classroom to increase student growth. It also shows how technology can be used to make lessons fun.

I think it is a great idea to use technology to make the classroom less dull. Anything that helps the student become more interested in what is going on and is educational is a great tool for teachers.

I think this is interesting because it is about a program we use here at Ohio University. It touches on the becoming of it but more of the revolution of it and for active learners.

This article describes various ways that students with disabilities can benefit from technology in the classroom. It not only explains opinions about assistive technology for special needs students, but also incorporates the legal aspect of including assistive devices in the classroom for children with disabilities.

I liked this site because of how many different articles it has. Many of the bullet-ed topics are really useful and really informational. I also liked how it puts a lot of the information we might want to look at at once into one site.

I found this website to be overall very helpful. It wasn't a single article that helped but several articles dealing with educational technology. Overall this site was very easy to operate and offered a lot of great information on the topic.

This article talks about a school in Lakewood Ranch, where they put the kids on computers in kindergarten. The students are much more technological capable than I am!

This article talks about how toddlers show a incredible aptitude for technology which emphasize the importance of incorporating technology in education because it helps maintain that connection to the education setting and the real world setting.

I like the idea of podcasting mainly because it has been tested and it is helping the students to learn and retain information better than they did before they had podcasting.

One of the most interesting articles I've read. This article basically talks about applying podcasts in science classrooms. Podcasts can be compared to Youtube, students are able to hold onto the podcasts of teachers' lectures and they can refer to that in the future for aid. Teachers noticed a significant gain in students' grades using podcasts. Also, when podcasts are used, it can be exchanged among schools and universities so there is a rich seam of information in podcasts.

Article looks at disruptive technologies in education - that is those that completely change the market place.  Is online learning for K-12 schools disruptive?