Final Course Reflection

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time within this class. I learned so many new things concerning technology that I know will benefit me in my future as an elementary teacher. This class offers important lessons such as how to incorporate technology into the classroom. From day one I have learned something new and often things that I have never even heard of, as well as do things that I have never had to do before. I came into this class with some knowledge of technology but not so much knowledge on how important roles technology play in education and how to use it properly to help with teaching.

                IT 365 has definitely helped improve my technology skills in very many ways. Coming into this class I thought I had quite a lot of technology knowledge but I am leaving this class with so much more. Every assignment we did in this class contains a valuable lessons and beneficial information for my future career. I learned so much on how important the NETS-T standards are and their importance. As stated in the syllabus for this class, “this course provides a foundation of knowledge about diversity issues and the resulting implications for technology implementation in classroom instruction. IT 365 intends to expand the students’ understanding of (a) teaching as a profession and (b) ways to meet the needs of diverse populations.”  

                There were eight key assignments within this class. These assignments ranged from creating a concept map, creating our own digital movie, to learning how to adapt lesson plans to accommodate student’s needs, to creating a blogfolio and the list goes on. After completing this class I now understand how important it is for teachers any educator to incorporate technology within their teachings. Technology, when used properly, is such a wonderful thing. Technology can benefit almost every area of education including simple areas such as just keeping in contact with student’s parents. The resources that it provides are endless. I know that in my future as an elementary teacher I will without a doubt use technology within my classroom. I will use it to make lesson plans, activities, assignments, websites, so on and so forth.