Classroom Technology

Throughout my education there has always been some kind of technology in the classroom used to help the students learn. One specific example that I can think of comes from when I was in high school. I was a Junior in a world history class and part of our requirement for the class was a research paper. At the beginning, none of the students knew exactly how we were going to do our research or what we were going to write about, good thing the teacher had a plan. The plan was to use the mobile cart of laptops and bring them into the class so we could walk through how to use the research database Ebsco. By allowing everyone to have a lap top, it made it much easier for the teacher to tell us students exactly what we wanted. He could just show us what to do on the laptop hooked up to the projecter, it helped lay the ground work for our papers. Other then the benifits already described the use of the laptops in the classroom placed everyone in the class on the same level, in terms of how we were to complete the assignment. The instruction was clear and that day in class if we had any questions they could be easily answered with a demonstration of how to use the database. Starting our research for our papers this way was definitely very benificial to everyone in the class.