Hi, Everyone!
My name is Jessica. I’m an English major and some day soon I will be teaching in a high school classroom and I’m looking forward to graduating next Spring.
I feel media technology plays an important role when it comes to running a classroom. There are so many different kinds of technology in which teachers can use, one of my favorite being PowerPoint. I remember a time in school when teachers would sit at the front of the room with an overhead projector and write out each and every painstaking word of the notes they wanted us to take down to study. With PowerPoint, the presentation is already there and is beneficial to both students and teachers because it saves a lot of time.
I think media technology should play a role in teaching because we are in a world that is highly technological. Kids these days grow up on computers and video games like no generation has ever done before. Even my three-year-old cousin knows how to navigate on an iPad! It would almost be like going back in time if we expect teachers not to use computers and technology in the classroom.
Like everything else, there are drawbacks to using technology in the classroom. For example, if every student had a computer in front of them, it may be harder to monitor whether or not the students are grasping the lesson plan because they may be playing around on the internet. But there are fixes to such situations, such as allowing the teacher to be able to see every student’s computer screen on their own computer, which I have actually experienced as a student at Glendale Community College. One of my English teachers allowed us to take essay exams on the computer and he was able to make sure none of us were cheating by cutting off the internet and having a home screen to view each student’s screen on his own computer.
