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Enhancing Education with Technology

This document discusses the author's views on using technology effectively in education. It describes how the author created an educational technology website in a class that demonstrates technology skills and resources for internet safety. The author believes designing a class website would increase parent involvement by keeping them informed. Research shows technology can engage students and increase parent-teacher communication. The author plans to frequently incorporate technology into the classroom to promote learning and parent involvement.

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Enhancing Education with Technology

This document discusses the author's views on using technology effectively in education. It describes how the author created an educational technology website in a class that demonstrates technology skills and resources for internet safety. The author believes designing a class website would increase parent involvement by keeping them informed. Research shows technology can engage students and increase parent-teacher communication. The author plans to frequently incorporate technology into the classroom to promote learning and parent involvement.

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POWELL MASTER’S PORTFOLIO 1

Technology Statement

Standard: A teacher uses technology effectively, creatively and wisely.

Technology has really come to the forefront of education in the last few years. It

allows teachers and students to have information with the push of a button, increases

parent teacher communication and helps students to engage in their learning through the

use of many technological resources. With all of the positives to technology it isn’t

surprising that teachers are implementing it into he classroom whenever they can. I think

technology can play a huge role in the classroom and can benefit students greatly.

In ED 230, I created this website [Link] which not

only demonstrates my personal ability to create and use technology, but also shows the

valuable information that I learned throughout the educational technology course. One of

the topics shown in my website is resources for Internet safety. Keeping students safe

while using the Internet should be a high priority for teachers. In an article written by

Linda Joseph (2007), she states, “Keeping kids safe must be an ongoing effort through

awareness, education, and supervision”. Before using technology, we need to talk to our

students about safety. On my website I list several links to websites that promote Internet

safety for youth.

Making my website in ED 230 has made me feel more comfortable with

designing web resources. I think this will be valuable as I start my teaching career.

Increasing parent engagement and parent teacher communication is an important

component of being an effective teacher. In a study done by Christine Olmstead that

looked at using technology to increase parent involvement (2013), it was shown that

websites are technology tools that can be used to keep parents informed. There are
POWELL MASTER’S PORTFOLIO 2

greater student learning outcomes when parents and teachers are on a team. I think

designing a class website similar to the website I produced in ED 230 would be a great

way to increase parent involvement. They would be able to quickly look at what is

happening in class and would be able to access valuable resources. An article published

in Gifted Child Today (2006) suggested that developing a class website is an efficient and

effective way to involve parents and keep them up to date with what is happening in their

child’s school life.

Technology provides teachers with a great opportunity to increase student

engagement as well as increase parent involvement. It also allows for a streamline

approach for keeping student data or lesson plans organized. During student teaching I

did all of my lesson plans through an online program, which allowed me to access my

plans from any computer or device, link standards and create units. As a teacher in a

technology driven world I plan on using technology frequently in my classroom as a way

to promote student learning and increase parent involvement.

References

Increasing Parental Involvement. (2006). Gifted Child Today, 29(3), 7–8. Retrieved from

[Link]

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Joseph, L. C. (2007). Keeping Safe in Cyberspace. MultiMedia &

Internet@Schools, 14(1), 17. Retrieved from

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Olmstead, C. (2013). Using Technology to Increase Parent Involvement in

Schools. TechTrends,57(6), 28-37. doi:10.1007/s11528-013-0699-0

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