Blog Post #10

When I become an elementary school teacher I will definitely be using Data Collection tools as a teacher. I plan to be teaching any grade ranging from Kindergarten-Fourth grade students. I will use the Data Collection tool to keep track of my student's grades and work during the school year. As an elementary school teacher, you don't just teach one subject- you teach a little bit of all subjects. The Data Collection tool can be helpful in order for the teacher to have an idea of which subjects the students perform their best or worst in and I could use the Data Collection to see any changes in grades that my students are making. For example, if I have a student that is 

making all A's on all of their assignments and then all of a sudden they fail a test, then I will have the Data Collection Tool to keep me updated on their sudden change. 

Topics that I found most interesting from reviewing my classmates' blogs is that I found the blog posts to be helpful for getting different opinions on different technologies and resources so that this can help me in the future for when I am an elementary school teacher. I liked looking at other people's projects at the end of their blogs and seeing how they did their assignments and how everyones was different from one another. 

The technology-related skill that I would most like to learn next is how to make flyers and brochures for class assignments and projects. I haven't had a project where I've been obligated to do one of those yet, but it has been optional in the past.. I've just never known how to do it. I think brochures and flyers would be cute and easy to incorporate in an elementary school classroom. 

Some ways in which I might achieve my future educational technology-related goals is to just keep practicing and learning about different technologies that are created and advanced. I'm not really the best with using technology but once I know how to use a specific form of it I become better with it. I think that it is important to consider which technologies would be the best to use in the classroom with students. There are different technologies to use for different age groups and that is something I need to figure out and decide for when I am finally a teacher. I know that in the future technology is going to be even more advanced and used in the classrooms than it is now.