The Final Frontier

The assignment was to read the article "Teacher Pedagogical Beliefs: The Final Frontier in Our Quest for Technology Integration" and then use the information provided in the article to create a presentation convincing other teachers to integrate technology in their classrooms.  The article talked about how teachers struggle to change their views on technology and integrate it in their classroom because of their beliefs of having a teacher centered classroom.  The article then explained that almost all school have the capability to bring technology into the classroom and that teachers have some of the knowledge to do so as well.  The articel then described why teachers are hard pressed to change their teaching ways but that a student centered, technology based classroom can actually enhance a students abilities intellectually. 

Our collaboration went very well in my opinion, we really worked well together and did a great job using eachothers ideas, compromising eachothers inputs and coming out with a good final product.  our presentation is simple but I believe that it really gets to the point and shows that students do and will use technololgy in a productive way if teachers begin it integrate technology into their daily routines in their classrooms.  Thus, teaching students to become independent learners by allowing them to be the leaders in their learning experiences