Prompt #2

Prompt#2- Identify how technology has been used in classes you have taken as a student, at all levels from elementary through college- providing examples of efficacious and inefficacious use of technology.

When I was a student in elementary and middle school technology really was not used that often. We would have to take acclerated reading tests on them but other than that the teachers did not really use them a lot in the classroom for instruction. It was not until highschool that teachers were really using computers. I used the computer for an advanced reading class that had a program that the teacher would use that took you through different stages to help you learn better ways to read faster, which was helpful. Power points were also being used for lectures that teachers were giving. This was both a good and bad thing because it would be easier to take notes, but other times teachers would read directly word for word off of the power point. I think it made class a lot more boring because the teachers would do that and not use any other way of instruction in their classes. In college a lot of teachers only lecture using power points and it is hard for students to learn because it is so monotonous and you have listen to it for the whole class period. When we had to create a webquest in ETE 353 I thought this was a very good way of using technology because there are so many different things that you could include to have students do rather than just having them read notes off of a power point.