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Is educational technology use worth the hype? Is it a fad that is here to stay? What on earth is PathBrite? Find out in this article!

I like that this article talks about both sides of technology and everything its supposed to be. Very neat article

It is obvious that the hype for technology in classrooms is important, but the article does well to say that technology for students isn't the only important aspect to the new tools for students. Teachers need to know how to incorporate the technology into their teaching so that it isn't JUST the technology the students are learning from.

This article was very helpful. It explains in detail the effects of technology in the classroom.

This page discuss the motivation and the role technology plays within the classroom

I love that this article says that Teacher's aren't just a fountain of knowledge being poured into a child's mind. Peer evaluation can also help a student learn from their's/other's mistakes and achievements.

I picked this as one of my articles because I liked how it broke down how to effectively implement educational technology into your classroom into five points. it breaks down what could be a large amount of material and information into five points so its easier to understand.

I find this article fascinating on how they have complied all of the information into 5 components of "educational technology". It makes it concise and simple to visually see and digest mentally.

I found this article to be to the point and full of details. It allows for the easiest description of educational technology. It breaks down the topic making it easy to understand and grasp. The five points created within this article create an easy understanding.

This article talks about how Iowa public universities are seeking money for building but meeting resistance since online education is being used more than ever.

I like how this article examines the overall cost and benefits that online education has. As a student who has taken online classes, and enjoys them, this article was awesome for me to read!

I like that is article talks about costs in it. I feel like everyone thinks technology is so great to have within the classroom but people tend to forget the cost of all that technology is not cheap.

When I first started reading this article, I wasn't sure where it was going to lead me. However, I really enjoyed it. I never really thought about video games being used as a educational tool.It was a pretty interesting article!

I really like the idea of using games like the Wii for fitness but there is ways around all of it because it just requires the use of one hand. However there are other game systems out there that require your whole body to be interactive to score on the games. Is we are to use this great tool in the schools I feel that it should be one of those systems.

I really like the thought of using fun games to get the gets active and moving and playing. I agree about the wii, there are games like the xbox kinec where they use the whole body and not just the hands with the controllers.

I really like this article because it addresses the need for learning to be relevant to the students. It is important for students to use what they have learned and technology provides a great outlet for that use.

Reading this article made me get excited about the possibilities of teaching with creativity and application. I agree with the author when she wrote, "I'd rather know that my kids were creating something of meaning, value, and I hope, beauty for people other than just their teachers, and that those creations had the opportunity to live in the world. That they were thinking hard about audience. That they were learning how to network and collaborate with others. That they were developing "proficiency with the tools of technology," learning to "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes," and becoming literate in the process. Real work for real audiences is, of course, hard to find in the current standardized testing regime." I could not have said it better myself! It seems that employers are looking for people who possess the quality of "working well with others". This new integrated classroom setup would allow for so many different learners to excel! Incredible article!

I enjoyed this article but also disagreed with it due to the fact that it is not possible for most students to complete some of these because they may not have access to a computer. They are great ideas but you have to look at your students before making it an assignment.

This article discusses the challenges of professional development, resistance to change, MOOCs and other new models for schooling, delivering informal learning, failures of personalized learning, and failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments. It also talks about emerging trends, opportunities, and technologies.

From this article, I learned of the many challenges faced within educational technology. It lays out the challenges and makes it easier for an understanding of the challenges faced. Each challenge makes it easier for these challenges to become over turned.

This article definitely asks some good questions but I'm not sure that they answered all of the completely. There is a lot that needs to go into an online classroom like the teachers need to have a completely different type of training if they are going to teach online and not in the classroom. how do you keep a child engaged when they are not right there with you? Also the student needs to have the ambition to do the work. I know for myself that having online classes is not an option because I become distracted and for a teen or younger the number of distraction in the world is countless.

This is a great example of using computers and technology to create differentiated learning within one classroom.

As a special education major, this article really relates to daily activities I can experience in the classroom. Technology gives special education teachers an opportunity to watch students learn on their own at their own levels, rather than teaching at an intermediate level where all kids can learn.

I so enjoyed reading this article about new ideas of learning with students. It is imperative that we, as future teachers, learn to engage students where they are at and also where they are going. It's incredible to think how fast computers and technology have changed our lives, however this fast-paced world of new gizmos and gadgets is the "norm" for our students. When the article talked about, "The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them." It will be critical that we keep up with the ever-changing types of technology so that we can best serve our students.

This article addresses a lot of concerns and questions with technology in education. It talks about schools that have a device for every individual student as well as the challenge of students bringing their own devises from home. It also reiterates that teachers are very important in leading this shift into a more technological classroom and school environment and how teachers can learn also from each other and students. 

At first I didn't think I was going to find this article useful, but after reading through it, I really enjoyed it. I really like how it took a side that asked questions, but also addressed the concerns. I feel like this was a different way of examining the topic of educational technology.

I liked this site because of how many different articles it has. Many of the bullet-ed topics are really useful and really informational. I also liked how it puts a lot of the information we might want to look at at once into one site.

I found this website to be overall very helpful. It wasn't a single article that helped but several articles dealing with educational technology. Overall this site was very easy to operate and offered a lot of great information on the topic.

This article is about how technology should be integrated into the classroom and how different technologies can better the learning experiences for students.

I like incorporating various forms of technology into science lessons, like exploration and sites that have a web cam for viewing things that we couldn't access on a field trip.

I agree with Cody. Why is it that schools are lacking in the technology department when it effects our lives so much?

UDL Book Builder is a great tool to create and publish digital books designed to support learners by using universal design for learning principles. Multiple points of entry, visual, auditory, vocabulary hyperlinks, and thought-provoking questions can be embedded to scaffold learning for all students.

Using UDL book Builder is a helpful resource to acquaint your students with grade level reading options. It helps bring technology into the classroom and into their lives with another form of learning style. Children seem to want to read more when there is a screen in front of them and they also enjoy going at their own pace. This is a wonderful tool for teachers to use to help students who need to hear the words on the page, as well as, give students who may have their work finished a place to use their energy on reading and creating books of their own choosing.

I also like the idea of having digital books as a teacher because I can always have them on a tablet or Ipad without weighing myself down. What I do not like is that my assistants do not have the same access to them. I would like to have all of the staff in my classroom be on the same page with the curriculum that I am teaching.

This in a great article with examples of how beneficial technology is in the classroom. You get great visuals and explanations of how technology is being utilized.

This was an interesting article that showed off many interesting things that can help students become more engaged in what is going on. The article gives a good summary of the different technologies used and more importantly how it helps students better understand what subject it pertains to.

I loved the idea of using language exchanges through technology.

This site has got some great articles on intergrating technology in the classroom. This one in particular gives some useful tips when setting up your classroom instruction.

This was very interesting. I found it a little funny when I saw the word relax but it is true that if you let students have the feeling that these valuable tools are theirs then they will take care of them. I feel for most children, who are taught to be careful with valuable things, this will be the case. Although, there are some kids who are never taught that nor taught respect for others things because they are just taught to be selfish. As a teacher this would be you job to show them that they need to care for valuable things and respect others property along with your own.

I thought this article was very interesting. Students do have the ability to continue the use of technology with out the guidance of teachers, as this article points out.

This article again stressed a lot of benefits that technology has to offer for education. However, my favorite part about this article is that it talks about how integration of technology begins with the teacher. 

This is important because it gives tips on how to effectively use tech in the classroom

This article is a good article to get some contrast on technology in schools. I think it is important to understand both sides.

This article is about how technology is used in the classroom to increase student growth. It also shows how technology can be used to make lessons fun.

I think it is a great idea to use technology to make the classroom less dull. Anything that helps the student become more interested in what is going on and is educational is a great tool for teachers.

This article talks about technology transforming the classroom. It also talks about the benefits of having laptops and other technologies in the classroom.

This was an informative article about technology. It will be interesting to see how technology effects state scores for students as technology continues to be used more frequently in our schools.

It is interesting to see multiple viewpoints of technology in the classroom. To hear that technology is not as greatly affecting student learning is surprising to me. Although I feel that in many cases it isn't the concept that is flawed but the technology or techniques that are being used.

This article talks about how technology is helpful in education. It also says that technology helps teachers check student progress

I agree with this article and the usefulness of technology in the classroom. The article points out that with the use of technology, students can have a more tailored educational experience. This is one area of education I think we would all agree is important for our students.

Nice reflection on using technology as part of active learning in the classroom.