Concept Map of EME5432

As I created this concept map, I realized that I had learned a lot in EME5432. In order for me to create it, I used our class textbook, blog, netvibes account, and stuff that I posted onto Delicious. By exposing me to these resources, this class made me feel much more comfortable about integrating technology into my future classroom. Considering the large role technology plays in our modern lives, it is essential that educators teach students how to become literate in this medium and how to use digital technology in a responsible way. Thus, we as educators need to model responsible behavior and in this instance, this means we need to integrate technology into our curriculum.

Technology offers teachers numerous valuable resources to relate the content to students in an exciting way. Although technology has its downsides, like expense, availability, and potential dangers, we can show students how to avoid these dangers and let students have access to these wonderful resources.

My main complaint about this class would be the twitter account. Although I can see how it can be useful to a teacher, I have not benefitted from it much this semester. One of my favorite parts of technology class was, ironically, the Alan November text as it contains lots of information that I think is valuable, like how to find back links etc.