Digital Blog post L

After reading chapter 12 I came across 3 concepts I found very interesting concepts, "inclusion and infusion of technology" was the first and the other two were "technology integration issues" and "automate and informate". The first concept I picked was inclusion and infusion of technology, inclusion means that computers and information technologies are used mainly for transferring information and practicing skills. Infusion means that computers and other information technologies are ongoing features of teaching and learning all academic subjects at all grades levels. In this paragraph it states that schools tend to follow one of the two. In my opinion I think the best way for schools to go is infusion. Technology provides endless opportunities for students and teachers, you have so much information just at the tip of your fingers. One extremely important factor to consider is time, technology is quick and easy to use giving students and teachers both extra time.

The second concept was technology integration issues, this paragraph focused on the six issues that occur for classroom teachers that directly affect their efforts to integrate technology into teaching. The six issues are administrative support and teaching style, unwillingness to change favorite lesson plans, reluctance to use technology is new lesson plans, use of technology as a reward or punishment, use of technology as an add-on to other activities, and use of technology to separate students by ability groups. Out of these six issues unwillingness to change favorite lesson plans is the one that really stuck out to me. Although technology is a key learning tool now teachers do have lesson plans that do not involve technology that they have been doing for years, I find this important because teachers do know what they are doing and these plans have probably worked very well for their class. I would of never imagined that it would be such a hassle to incorporate technology. I do understand that it may be over whelming for teachers to begin bringing in technology into their class because this is new to them but I also think they need to be open to knew things and they just might be surprised at how much it may help.

The last concept was automate and informate at the beginning of this paragraph it states that Alan November distinguished between people using technology to automate or informate. Automate is when a new technology pretty much recreates exciting practices. Informating signifies a different a different process, where a technology changes an activity by fundamentally redesigning and refining it. I thought both of these were very interesting but at first I had a hard time understanding the difference between the two. After reading I think I realize the difference and I believe in this day and age automate occurs way more than informate because on a regular basis their is something technology oriented that almost takes the place of something that is not technology involved. For example going to a library to check out a book has been replaced with the app "book" on your smart phone where you can buy books and read books at your convenience.

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Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.