Blog #5- Technologies in a Future Classroom

In ETPT this semester, we used a lot of different technologies to create a more learner-centered classroom. Although I found a way to integrate each technology into my future high school English classroom, it wasn't always easy. It goes back to using the "right tool for the right job." I think that three of the best technologies to use in a high school English classroom are Inspiration concept maps, InspireData databases, and word processing (such as making newsletters). 

These three technologies are three that I think would be the best to use in a high school English classroom because they allow students to use them to showcase what they've learned to the classroom, which makes all of the students retain the information better and and create a more learner-centered classroom. Concept maps are really good to use in the classroom so that students can make them in groups and present their ideas in an interactive way. They're also good to use so that students can interactively organize their ideas for papers. Databases are good to use for literature because you can easily show the relationships, connections, and correlations between different factors in the book. Word processing is another great way to create a more learner-centered classroom. Having students make newsletters about the information they learned instead of me testing them or having them write a paper. 

Like I said before, it's not always easy to integrate every technology into an English classroom. One of the hardest technologies to use for a lesson plan was the spreadsheet.  In English, there isn't a tremendous amount of numerical data or equations that need to be solved and that's mainly what a spreadsheet is used for. I think that spreadsheets would be much better for a science or a math classroom.