Ch. 6 Using Digital Technology

To start off, I want to acknowledge that I believe it is not necessary for a classroom to have technology in order for students to get a good education.  Clearly if that were true then nobody would have ever learned anything up to this point in history and to be frank, we wouldn't be learning right now either because the world isn't technologically advanced as it will be someday in the future.  As far as how I intend to run things in my classroom, I do hope that I get the opportunity to teach with and some form of interactive whiteboard and if I end up teaching geometry there are definitely some cool programs out there that would come in handy.  I know that even if the school I end up at doesn't have the money for these kinds of technologies that I will have a calculator and a projector of some kind.  Maybe I will even be able to hook up my calculators to a television set for the class to look at.  Overall I would prefer to teach with more digital technology in the classroom because there are just some things that are a lot easier to do on a program than by hand.  For me, one of those things would be using a compass to make angles and shapes with.  I can just never seem to keep the compass the right size but a computer program would have to troubles at all keeping an object the same size.