While we do not live in a world that has robots as sophisticated as C3PO, we are very close to that reality. As teachers we need to keep up on the latest technology, embrace it, and use it in our classrooms or our students will suffer in the long run. We must be able to train our students to live and work in the future, not the present, and the only way we can do that is by keeping up on current technologies and learning them ourselves. My hope is to teach history through technologies that our fore fathers could never have imagined possible. or even condemned as witch craft.. This will help my students become engaged in my lessons and develop a love of history instead of despising it like so many people do today. This is an advertisement from Smart Technologies, but it shows a cute animated version of the history of technology in the classroom. Here is a link to US Department of Education's webpage dedicated to "Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students."
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