Teacher Technology Flaws

When I become a teacher I plan on teaching 3rd and 4th grade if I’m lucky! 3rd and 4th grade students are probably more tech savvy than I will be and by the time I become a teacher technology is going to be a huge part of education whether I want it to or not. With technology advancing at the rate it is teaching will soon become a breeze. Teachers will be able to do most everything with technology and find to be a good thing and a bad thing. When I think of technology, I instantly think of computers and the internet not calculators or a TV. Using a computer and the internet would definitely have its benefits in a classroom. With the internet there all the new Web 2.0 tools which not only work great for students, but teachers as well. There are so many helpful websites on the internet that can help students with their school work and projects or even help a teacher manage their classroom. For the grade level …show more content…
The student in my class will understand why cheating is wrong and they will understand that there will be a punishment if I find out that they cheated. This won’t discourage some students, but I hope it will discourage enough of them because there will always be students looking for an easy way out. Trying to avoid incorrect information will definitely not be easy, there are so many websites out there that have things wrong. If I have the student use the internet for finding information I will have them avoid certain websites such as Wikipedia and will try to steer them to the college research journals or PBS websites. As for keeping students on task and off games when they are using the internet they will understand that if they are caught they will no longer have access to the internet or a computer, they will have to do everything by hand. I hope that this will discourage any bad