- Changing technology changing classroom learning
- Classroom lessons become more interactive
- Multi media meets different learning styles
Teachers were challenged to find new and innovative ways to educate the students in their schools using the multi media tools available. Technology changes minute by minute. Dr. Sybril Bennett, Ms. Tammy Parks, Janet Kerby, and Carol Knopes provided a plethora of websites, technology tools, and uses for ways to make classrooms more interactive.
According to John Dewey, "If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow." Children today live in a world of technology and their learning styles reflect this need for learning. According to the many of the high school journalism experts, high school journalism is not the same mad dash to print a paper, late night deadlines, or the never ending stories of prom, clubs or sports. There is a plethora of resources for the high school journalism teacher.
The most innovative application for technology I discovered was the use of cell phones in the classroom. From the use of wiffiti to twitter to using it for photo assignments. Classrooms should become more interactive. According to a survey posted on cnet.com "About four out of every five teens carry a cell phone. This is up from 40 percent of teens owning a cell phone in 2004. And almost half of the teens surveyed today say that having a cell phone is "key" to their social lives." So instead of fighting the use of cell phones in the classroom, why not embrace them and use the power of the technology to enhance learning. Cell phones can become a tool in the classroom. Studies and industry reports are encouraging the use of cell phones as another way to introduce multi media technology into the classrooom.
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