Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Teachers' tech use on the rise Nearly nine in 10 educators say it has changed the way they teach By Laura Ascione, Assistant Editor, eSchool News



Roughly 86 percent of U.S. teachers say computer technology has changed the way they teach at least some, and more than half (55 percent) say it has impacted their instruction "a great deal," according to a new survey commissioned by CDW-G.
The survey, conducted in February and March of this year, questioned 1,000 K-12 public school teachers. CDW-G employed market research firm Quality Education Data (QED) to conduct the study, which has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
"The use of technology in the classroom is not only here to stay, but it has an increasing presence and an increasing significance in what's going on in the classroom," said Deirdre Martel, marketing research manager at QED.
At least three-fourths of teachers surveyed recognized the importance of computer technology in teacher-related functions such as attendance-taking and record-keeping (86 percent), communication (83 percent), research and planning (79 percent), and classroom instruction (77 percent). These figures were up an average of 10 percentage points from last year's survey.
"It's important to note that, regardless of function, technology use is growing in almost every area," said Martel.
Supporters of educational technology greeted the results of CDW-G's 2005 "Teachers Talk Tech" report as welcome news. They say the survey offers a clear indication that technology is helping to transform instructional practices.
"For those of us who believe that technology can have an impact on education, it's gratifying to see that so many teachers are reporting that it's having an impact," said Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit organization that helps schools make smart and effective use of technology.
"It's definitely a very positive survey, and teachers are starting to change the way they get information and teach," Krueger said. "The positive way to look at it is that, almost across the board, teachers say technology is changing what they're doing."



REACTION:
Our world has really changed a lot. From the old generation, we are now leaving in the new generation and a modern life. Everything we need is there and we are not anymore living in the slow life but a fast and improve life. This is because of the modern science that brings us the technologies.
Technology is really a greet help in education. Using technology is a brilliant way of teaching and giving information to the students. It improves the life of the students and also the teachers. Through technology, teachers could have a lesser time in preparing the lessons and students could learn beyond from what their teachers have taught them by surfing the internet. Also, through technologies like computers, teachers and students could gain current information that could not found on the book. I agree in this article that technology helps the teacher to rise. Technologies have really a great impact on education. It change the way of teaching and technology serve as source of information. From writing the on the board the lessons to be discuss using the chalk, teachers are now using projectors to present the lessons to the students. Distribution of handouts produce by the machines is also one example of fast transferring of knowledge to the students. Students can learn effectively through technology because they could not only hear it but they could also see it.
In conclusion, teachers should really adapt this new way of teaching for better learning of the students. Also, technologies could not only benefit the students but also to the students. This article is really true and useful. It could open the mind of those teachers who were still living in the traditional and old way of teaching to think and decide to adapt the new generation and to used technology in teaching. And lastly, it could help them realize that technology is important and it brought a lot of changes and it is a way of reaching the development that we aim for education.
by:Famela Raymundo BSPED 3

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