Technology In Education

     Yesterday (Tuesday) we had parent/ teacher conferences in our district. After speaking with many of the program assistants I decided to go ahead and volunteer to be a translator for the day. This would be my first time translating for the parents because usually I would take this day off and use it for personal appointments. I did not have any so I decided to use this day and also get extra pay (because we all know how much a program assistant makes). I thought why not just do it and so I did.      It was very interesting how their system works when it comes to translators. Our conferences were from 11:30 am-3 pm and 5-7pm. Each program assistant working translation had walkie talkies and we were called at any time to go into certain classrooms. We were just running around going up and down left and right. Believe me when I say this, there were no breaks at all. I never knew how much a translator was needed because of how many parents not having Engl...

Technology is always around us no matter what and it is becoming super popular especially in the education world. I like the idea of finally incorporating technology in the classroom because growing up it was not there for me. I mean it was, but I could clearly remember when they started giving teachers their very own desk top computers in their classrooms, I was in the second grade. For us all we did on the computers was how to open up Word Documents and mess around with it and how to save it to our floppy disks or print out one of those cool word art. That was my technology education back then. However, it has completely changed. Now in classrooms there are smart boards, each student has a chrome book, students know how to use social media and making a power point is not cool anymore like it was with us. There are good things that come with technology and I do like it and enjoy it because for me it gives learning a whole new outlook. There is no need to buy books you can rent them...