Blog Journal 6

FSUS's second-grade class homepage has a lot of information provided by the teacher to help the parents and the students as well. There is so much provided information about the teacher, resources such as textbooks, important dates for the calendar, and projects. All of this information is provided by the teacher and allows the parents to keep track and be informed of all things related to their student's education. It is a great way for the parents to stay involved in the student's school as well. It is also a great responsibility for the teacher to maintain a welcoming webpage for the parents and students to access. https://www.fsus.school/Domain/37
     Once I become a teacher I will definitely have a lot of responsibilities technologically like maintaining a webpage for my class and updating homework and resources and important dates to help my students and their parents. I see myself using lots of modern technology in my classroom like smartboards, webpage creators, online communication platforms and so much more. I want to be able to use technology to help my students connect with one another and help them learn from other sources not just from me teaching them. I also think it would be really interesting to incorporate certain technology in my classroom like Virtual Reality and 3D printing like we saw at the Tech Sandbox.
     One specific technology I would love to see in my future classroom would be the 3D printing pen. My students could use these pens to literally draw in the air and create something in seconds with just a pen. It could be incorporated into an art lesson. It would be really cool for the students to get to experience this kind of creativity in technology. Another really cool technology I would like to use is the VR or virtual reality because this can be so useful in a classroom for so many reasons. One thing we could definitely use the VR for would be virtual field trips. Using VR we could take a trip anywhere in the world. If we were learning about something in a museum we could take a trip to the museum using VR. There are endless possibilities for the new technologies in the classroom and it is really encouraging to see and makes me want to be a teacher even more so I can use these devices in my future classroom and show my students how awesome it all is.