Technological applications play a big role in how a class is operated in today's K-12 classrooms. Applications as simple as a word processor provide many useful resources in classrooms. Word processor can be used to create notes and worksheets for students to use to enhance their learning. A spreadsheet is another application that has many practical uses in a classroom. Spreadsheets provide a tool that makes it very easy to consolidate and arrange information is such a way to make graphs. Graphs can be made to show population growth, family incomes, and other mathematical applications. Databases are another application that are useful mainly to teachers. Databases can keep any information about any of their students in once accessible file. For example, if a teacher needs to find a parent's phone number, they can open the database that contains the student's information and find the phone number.
By simply looking at the many different functions word processor, spreadsheets, and databases have to offer, it is clear that technology and its different applications can play a huge role in a classroom. The possible uses of technology are endless and as the years progress, different applications will emerge and have useful functions in the classroom.
Devynn:
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you are putting emphasis on the use of technology as a tool in the K-12 classroom, unless it is a computer literacy or computer science course you are teaching, then the technology become the content for the course.
However, in other courses, the content to be taught/learned should always be the focus; application software just helps make that happen better in many cases.
Dr. Herring