Technology in Education

Technology in education is important- it engages children in multiple ways. Technology in the classroom gets children involved in group work, activities, searching, and it helps hold children’s attention span. It allows them to learn and engage in academic work in a nontraditional manner that is oftentimes more interesting to the child.
Instead of learning mathematics through numerous worksheets, teachers could easily have the children get into a math program during that lesson. Mathforum.org or Brainpop.com are wonderful websites for children to get a drill and practice lesson, and for them to engage in different kinds of math questions and activities. Applied to another subject like language arts, when children are done reading a longer book, or if as a class the teacher reads a chapter book, the children could write journal entries on the computer. They could write about their favorite part in the book, summarize, or illustrate using clip art, or Kidspiration. This would get the children listening and comprehending through out the book, then expressing themselves through the computer.
Not only are children able to engage in the technology programs for the different areas of the curriculum; mathematics, social studies, science, language, reading, etc., children are also able to get involved with social interactions. Having pen pals across the world is available for children to learn about the different cultures with in the United States as well as the world around us. Children will not only be making friends and actively engaging in global education, but they will be learning many interesting facts about each other, and the different cultures and diversities.
It is of personal opinion that utilizing sources of technology in education is important, and is a different and arguably better way for children to engage in certain learning activities rather than the typical instruction methods like lecturing, worksheets, etc. Taking supervision into consideration, I feel that technology should be a vital aspect in education.