Etmer

This article states that "technology is now considered by most educators and parents to be an integral part of providing a high- quality education." I believe this to be true, as generations grow our use for computers is becoming larger and larger. But i wouldn't want it to take over our classroom activities. However, it is important to teach students the technology and give them great use of these as this is what they will be stepping out to in the future. So by hindering this process we are not doing our future generation any good.

Full integration of computers in the classroom is a distant goal (Marcinkiewicz, 93.) Teachers are hindering the progress of students in the progression of using technology to learn 'with' at school. Etmer argues that fear and control have more influence over us and ICT than the opportunity to overcome this and enhance technology in the classrooms significantly. If teachers do not believe that ICT can work in a classroom and be used for effective learning then they will not use it!

In other words students miss out on technology if a teacher has had bad experiences with ICT. We need to conquer these beliefs so that we understand that the value of ICT is important to students learning as this is the way of the future. Obviously as i keep saying, it should not overpower the classroom activities but it needs to become apart of it as it will be useful to students in the future, plus students love using them! We need a healthy balance between ICT and teaching. And we need to be comfortable with our uses of ICT as a teacher, why not let the students teach you a bit about it as well!