How will we each utilize these tools in our own classroom?

To be totally honest, I am not entirely sure how many standard ‘tech tools’ I will use in my future classroom. It depends entirely on the needs of my future students. With the ever increasing challenges facing both the students and the teachers in the average classroom today, I will use whatever technology available to be of help to my students. I do however feel very strongly that technology shouldn’t replace the learning of basic literacy skills. I believe all students should come out of school with a solid foundation in reading, writing and the ability to comprehend and apply what it is they have learned. Although it frustrated me at the time, I had a grade 6 teacher who used our class as part of his masters thesis. We spent a lot of extra class time working on spelling and  grammar exercises,  learning how to restructure sentences to make them stronger and more complete. In whatever assignment we were working on he would always ask us to rewrite the sentence to make it better or re write it create a knew way of writing it. We had to edit EVERYTHING he gave us. Although I wasn’t happy about using recess or P.E. time to work on these skills, it definitely paid off.  At the end of gr. 6 he had us write copies of the gr.12 English exam and we all passed it.  Of those kids in that particular class only two of us did not go on to College or University, and I am sure our stronger language skills helped us in our other studies which led to us choosing to go to College or University. Although I would definitely stress having strong basic literacy skills, I think the most important thing is to be able to utilize all the skills available to you to maximize your learning opportunities.

“Technology can amplify great teaching, but great technology cannot replace poor teaching”

(Glowacki, 2015)

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