Reflection Blogging 3

The role of integrating technology in teaching and learning for today's 21st century learner is more important now than ever before.  The level of technology continues to grow each year.  In order for our students to be able to keep up with the new technologies, we as educators need to try to keep up as well and integrate it in our daily lessons.  As a teacher of the 21st century learner, I will need to be able to design, evaluate, create, and revise my lessons including technology tools that will be the most useful for my students.  The best way to be able to better teach my students I will need to get to know my students learning needs, come up with learning and performance objectives, and then provide assessments to measure their comprehension of the material.  Some of the technology tools I feel will provide me with success as an English/Literature teacher are Reading Plus, Prezi, and Google Classroom.  Reading Plus helps the students to increase vocabulary, comprehension, endurance, memory, silent reading fluency, and provides the ability to systematically master higher levels of text.  Prezi can be used by students to prepare presentations on learned reading material to show knowledge of context.  Google Classroom provides many ways for the student to collaborate learning with other students and the teacher.  All of these tools provide access for the teacher to give immediate feedback and suggestions to their students.