I think my greatest challenge regarding technology and teaching is integrating. It's easy to learn how to use technological tools, and it's fun to teach, but to learn to combine the two in effective ways that promote greater learning and understanding, I think is my greatest challenge. I think I tend to look at things as a checklist, so I know I have to teach math, for example, and I know I have to teach technology, so it's easy for me to teach one and then the other, but I find it very difficult to think of creative ways to combine the two.
I think the only way I'm going to overcome this is through time and practice. In the beginning I think it will take a lot of careful time and planning to come up with things, but after awhile I hope I will have trained my brain to think outside the box :-) I don't think there is going to be any magic class that I can take that will suddenly make me effective at integration, I think it's going to take lots of time and practice and learning through my mistakes.
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This is one of the great challenges -- technology needs to integrated in such a way that it empowers learning and doesn't distract. This will be part of your lifelong learning plan as technology and methods will constantly change.
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