One thing that is important to me is adventure and change. Remember when you where a child and everything seemed new and engaging, that is what studying new and emerging technology is like. Over the past few weeks I have been studying about emerging technologies in the field of education like, gaming, mobile devices, cloud computing, online communication tools, smart objects and personal webs (Johnson 2009) through my course work at Walden University. These exciting innovations have the potential to change the face of computing and education. The particular innovation that caught my attention was mobile devices. I just recently purchased a 3GS iPhone and I am totally obsessed with the power of the device. It does way more than make phone calls it is a powerful computing tool that has a great amount of classroom potential. First of all the device it’s self engages students and it’s easy to see why the first time you pick it up. With a touch of the finger students are socially connected to the world. There is YouTube, Google, Dictionaries, and games. There are educational applications, for my content area of music there are keyboards, metronomes, tuning apps, solfegio and theory apps the list goes on and on. So if students own these devices and are engaged by them why not start incorporating them into lesson plans so that teachers and students are participating and preparing for life in the 21st century.
References:
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Smythe, T. (2009). The 2009 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. Used by permission of The New Media Consortium.
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