Educators Course Reflection

Over the course of this semester, I took a lot away from this Introduction to Technology for Educators course that I believe really helped me grow as a future educator. I was introduced to many different types of software and apps and taught how I could introduce technology in the classroom and make it effective. Even through how we created our assignments were different applications that I believe I will use in my classroom. This course has really opened my eyes to how teachings can stray away from traditional methods and how it ends up really working in the classroom. I learned how we can take all these different types of technologies and form them to adapt to whatever we are teaching and how we want them to be used. I learned all the different technologies that can be integrated and …show more content…
I think that the first thing I would change is how many assignments we have. This might sound strange, but I wish we actually had more assignments! I couldn’t get enough! I kept going ahead on the weekly assignments because I couldn’t wait to do the next one! I wish there was an assignment where we actually had to present our activity through a video. The second thing I would change about this class is that I wish there was a lab portion. I wish that instead of it being fully online, we could meet up and do a lab portion where we could work on integrate are technology in a real life setting. I feel like that would help us how we could integrate technology in our real life instruction. My only suggestion would be to maybe have some activities based on the weekly reading. Sometimes I would get so excited by the activities that I would get bored with the reading portions. Other than that, this was an amazing class! Also, I wanted to tell you I love your instruction! You allowed us to have a little freedom with the activity, but you also gave us a very structured rubric that showed us exactly what you were looking