This article expresses how technology is now being widely used in the classroom to enhance and support teaching and learning. Strategies and techniques now used to support technology in teaching and learning enable
teachers to work collaboratively with students while the students become more immersed in their own learning. The journal serves as a role to explore the intergration of technology in the education process and express ways in which changes will increase the use of strategies such as guided inquiry, group problem solving and critical thinking. Along with these
changes, the use of technology has given rise to many questions.

The author believed that with new information technology it has become what he called “transhuman” process as people share with increasingly powerful artificial networks and brains. He also believed that where learning was once based in a school classroom, the emergency of new information technology has seen learning permeating every form of social
activity outside the school, from work to entertinment and home life. The emergency of the Internet and its resources has caused teachers to respond to the need to intergrate technology in classroom and activities.
However, many teachers are not prepared to use technology to support their classroom activities.
 
According to the article over fifty percent of teacher-education graduates surveyed felt they were either not prepared or were
poorly prepared to use technology. Therefore, teachers were offered numerous opportunities to prticipate in conference, workshops, and training programs, which serve to encourage teacher to lern how to use a variety of
technology and ifferent ways by which the may be itergrated across the curriculum.

Many students are more familiar with some of the new technologies. Therefore, students are often asked to help both teachers and other students to understand how the technologies work. Working together, teachers and
students become teams of “knowledge explorers” as learning becomes more meaningful.

Reference
Duhaney, D. C. (2000). Technology and the educational process: Transforming  classroom activities.International Journal of Instructional Media, 27(1), 67-72.


Sarah McGee
1/11/2011 04:26:24 am

I believe teachers should be fully knowledgable about the technology being used in their classromm and prepared to teach it. I believe that before teachers use a type of technology in the classroom, it should be required that the teacher learned about it in school or has been to a class/ workshop to learn about it. I do not agree that students should be showing the teacher how to use the technology in the classroom. I think that teachers should be required to attend a class or workshop about new technology every few years to be able to keep up with the times because this will be what your students are interested in. I do see how the spread of the use of computers and internet has brought information and a way to educate oneself into our homes. One just must have the desire to use these tools.

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