Math Tech

Long gone are the days of using chalk and an eraser for instruction in the classroom.  We will now be integrating technology into the classrooms that we as students never experienced.  This will lead to many new challenges.  While both scary and exciting it will be a change for future educators like myself who are trying to learn all this recently discovered technology and better my classroom learning experience with it. 

This link below talks about different school integrating new technology into their classrooms. 
Integrating Technology into the Classroom

USA today cites three ways to integrate technology into the classroom

1) Planning ahead, there are ways in which you can make sure your classroom and students are equipped to use the materials.  This may include instruction on how to use the device.
2) Try new things as a teacher. In not experiencing as many technologies as a child, we as educators will have to go out on a limb and try different things to see which we like and which we do not.
3) Be an educational designer, as in somebody who can figure out which resource best suites each individual student.
(McMullen).

Collaboration is a key component in the classroom environment as well as between teachers to bounce ideas and other important information off of each other.  With the use of technology this is a much easier task than in the past and can actually be very beneficial.  Education World states that teachers can create friends list with other teachers and create pages to place information that they used in the classroom along with teaching techniques and strategies that allow for better engagement of the students (Sullivan, J).

Teaching is now ever changing and the flipped classroom is becoming ever more popular and this can be attributed to the schools getting more and more devices for the students to incorporate such as chromebooks and other such devices.  The Huffington Post states that this allows teachers to let certain students access more information than others, that is those that are ready to move on can while the others can receive additional exercises over the digital devices (Spirrison, B).

Sources
McMullen, L. (2012, January 25). 3 tips on integrating technology into the classroom. Retrieved September 14, 2014.

Spirrison, B. (2014, August 22). Social Networking tips for teachers. Retrieved September 14, 2014, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-spirrison/a-primer-on-educational-t_b_5698445.html

Sullivan, J. (2010, January 1). Social Networking tips for teachers. Retrieved September 14, 2014, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech256.shtml