https://www.theedadvocate.org/classroom-projects-for-a-digital-age/ This article shares ideas that a teacher or educator can use to increase the use of technology in the classroom. Gone are the days of children reading and using textbooks to learn and write. New aged classrooms are turning more and more to technology to increase in engagement and learning. There are many different ways to use technology in the classroom. A great way to increase collaboration in the classroom is by using technology driven project based learning. Setting students up in the groups to collaboratively use the computer to access information or games is a great way to not only increase technological skills but also social skills. Rather than having students create physical projects in class to present, why not have students create a multimedia presentation that they can present using their computer to the class. There are many ways that technology can increase learning and engagement. Creating fun games th...

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-classroom-free-ed-tech-teacher-reaction-2018-11 This article states how clearly technology is growing in the classroom. It states, " Google says there are 80 million educators and students globally using G suite , which allows users to access Gmail, Google Cloud, Google Docs, and other productivity tools. There are 40 million global users of Google Classroom specifically." Chromebooks are dominating the tech side of schools and google classroom is the new textbook. Google classroom now dominates the tech classroom world because it was the first of it's kind and it's free. Schools and districts are in support of increase in technology because they believe that future careers will be primarily technologically based. Schools also appreciate the money saved on paper and not having a paper trail and storage problems at school. Chromebooks and google devices make up over half the tech market in school, coming in at 58%. In contrast,...

https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2018/11/educators-see-positive-impact-mobile-devices-k-12?sf203176092=1 This article explains research behind the positive effects of mobile devices in schools across the United States. Research conduced in 2017 states that mobile devices have three measured positive effects on students and the classroom. The first is mobile devices mobile devices encourage further classroom equity. In other words, more principals are assigning mobile devices to all students to ensure technological equity. This is proven in that 60 percent of schools have one-to-one mobile devices. The second positive outcomes is it elicits better student understanding allowing more digital content within the classroom. " For example,  51 percent  of teachers who used digital animals and simulations  to explain abstract concepts to students found the content helped students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, while only  43 percent  of a...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindadarlinghammond/2019/06/16/technology-in-the-classroom-the-question-is-not-now-if-but-how/#56df21681c55 This article speaks on the debated topic of using technology in the classroom. California just passed a bill to increase technology spending to further enhance their standards based computer science curriculum, which is 1 of only 7 states with such standards. It discusses not if, but how technology is appropriate and in the best interest of students and teachers. I was recently in a technology meeting at my school and we discussed not getting behind the times- my principal discussed how fear is what is guiding many people in technology but that all great things started with fear. She said Socrates was fearful of writing his thoughts down, she also said that when the Brooklyn Bridge was built, P.T. Barnum was paid to put his elephants on the bridge to make sure it was sound and secure before anyone would cross it... these stories make up our history ...

https://twitter.com/edtechh/status/1140868691866898433 This article discusses several advantages to modern day use of technology in the classroom- some which I have never thought of. One advantage it discusses is allowing students to submit their work online and then receive their grades in real-time. Gone are the days where students had to wait weeks to get their papers back. Another advantage is the increase of communication between the students and teachers. If a student has question on an assignment, the teacher can quickly reply without stopping class or long-winded answers. This opens the door to not only communicating about school work but also personal or social problems in school. A third advantage of technology used in the classroom is the obvious less paper use and providing students with interactive textbooks and models. The last advantage this article discussed is the use of English translating websites and apps that allow foreign students to learn and receive better e...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48450604 This article is about an online game called Roblox that is geared towards young children and has over 90 million users worldwide. This game, like many others has a chat feature that many times parents are unaware of. This article talks about a particular case where the parent thought it was an innocent game, unaware of the chat feature, letting her son have access to it thinking there was nothing to be worried about. Her son ended up having inappropriate chats with other users and she had no idea. This article brings attention to the scariness of online games and how we need to protect our children and students from being lured in to sexual predators. The article discusses how parents should be "skilled up" in regards to watching and monitoring their child's internet use, but it also discusses that if they are groomed into negative situations, to provide the appropriate emotional support but it can have long term effects on t...