Post 10

In high school I went to a school of technology, so we always had computer labs, laptops, and Netbooks available to us. It wasn't until my senior year that the school decided to implement iPads into our everyday learning. Every student received an iPad and the teachers were expected to know how to do implement iPad use into the classroom.I believe this goes to show that all of my senior-year teachers used iPads as a professional development tool, which promoted long term learning in the classroom. The teachers had to go to countless seminars to learn was apps were good to use, and to learn different ways to make iPads part of everyday learning. This was important to do, because our world is becoming more and more technologically advanced, and it helps learning if everyone knows how to use technology appropriately and to their benefit.

Every few years there will always be a major technological advancement that I, as a teacher, will have to be aware of and figure out how to use. Since I have been around technology my entire life, I do not think it will be that hard to pick-up and learn new technologies as a teacher. As long as my school provides me with the money and resources necessary to get the new technology, I am very confident I will be able to integrate it into my everyday curriculum and finds ways to make it beneficial for my students.

One technology that I recently heard about from a friend is a website called Paperrater.com. In the website, students can upload their essays/research papers and the website grades them based on plaigarism/originality, grammar, spelling, sentence/word strength, and the use of transitions. It tells students what to fix, what is good about the paper, and a model grade of what they might recieve, based on other students' papers in that grade level. Paperrater is a very helpful tool because it allows students to check their papers for simple mistakes such as grammar, but also check to see what percentage of the paper is plagiarized. I think it will be a very useful tool since I have many, many more papers to turn in throughout the rest of my college career.