9/26 Reflection

Learning how to blog! yea!!! but not there yet...still need a lot of help:) will continue to practice!!!

Lots of resources to look through! I'm very interested to see what resources I can use for my district...
This class is the work....the struggle of how to incorporate technology in the classrooms!!....how can the whole system use it productively! Who's out there doing it right? who has it down?

Chapter 1 Educational Technology

Fact: "Electronic games are becoming a bigger business than movies"

This is somewhat alarming! While adults are also consumers of electronic games, the biggest consumer are kids, as early as 1 year olds....and then they come into a classroom Environment??

Reminds me of what Medina said;

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom” - Excerpt From: John Medina “Brain Rules"

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PD must be in the forefront of any technology initiative, so that it does not sit idle in the classrooms/storage rooms.