The document provides an autobiographical timeline of the author's experiences with educational technology from kindergarten through college. It details the technologies the author was exposed to at different stages of her education from 1983 to the present. The author expresses a vision for the future classroom that incorporates more hands-on learning experiences in the community. The document also lists challenges and potential solutions to teaching with technology.
2. Overview
My name is Leah Johnson
I started school in 1983 in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I graduated from high school in
1997, in Albuquerque.
I first went to college at University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque in
1999
When I finish my degree, I hope to
become great teacher!
3. My definition
of educational technology
Using 21st century tools and
techniques to better understand
concepts and engage learning.
4. Web sites on ed tech
history
3 A great timeline of technologies
3 http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.
3 A huge collection of great videos and blogs
3 http://technologyhistory.blogspot.com/
3 Explore technology changes through history
in relation to society and education
3 http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/tnc.html
5. Kindergarten
technology:
Experiences up till now are learning from the family
9. A technology I want to
use in my classroom
The Holodeck from Star Trek
3 A simulated reality facility
3 Objects and People are simulated by
holographic images
10. My vision of the classroom
of the future
More fieldtrips
and
involvement
into the
community
we live in.
11. A challenge for teaching
We are
Money our
Time own
Know- Barriers
ledge
Experi-
ence 3 Get Grants
Integra-
tion
3 Take classes
3 Ask the kids
3 Talk with
other
teachers
12. Words of wisdom
3 "There's a lunatic in the
lobby who says he's
invented a device for
transmitting pictures over
the air. Be careful, he may
have a razor on him."
3 —Editor of the London Daily Express, commenting to
a staffer on someone who had asked to see a reporter
and was waiting downstairs
3 "There is no reason anyone
would want a computer in
their home."
3 —Ken Olson, President, Chairman, and Founder of
Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
3 Oh how things have
changed!
