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 * //Reflection Prompt Module 4 Reflect on your thinking surrounding your developing a philosophy of Instructional Technology use for learning and your understanding of 21st Century Teaching and Learning //**

**Description**-This week we were assigned our short paper, which I began doing research on. I watch a few videos from the Partnership for 21st century learning, which I loved the children story.

**Impact-**
Although I do support the use of technology, I do have a fear how how we will use technology in the classroom. The main reason I worry is because many teachers don't understand how to incorporate technology well. We need to learn how to incorporate the learning to technique of technology. This means that we need to think of creative ways that would be used in the job fields now and in the future. We have to gain a better understand standing on how technology is changing.

Trying new things and taking bigger risked (especially for teachers who have been teach the same lesson for many years) can improve learning environment. Instead of doing another report, have the students use flash cameras and create a video discussion and then using a web camera or smart phone to respond. This may make it so that you are no longer a teacher to the students, but a fellow reporter. Another idea, which I have seen in action, was to use a blog to do science projects. Students will place all their findings online and have them critic by the teacher. This way students don't loss any paper, teacher always have access to them and can find problems before the experiments go to far. By embedding technology lesson into the class, students not only gain a deeper understand of technology, but it became less teacher centered and more student centered.

**Intent-**
Each activity, I have discussed could have had a large amount of teacher centered learning, but by imbedding technology into it, students will become the center point of the learning environment. The biggest advantage to the 21st Century Teaching is that if we Incorporated instructional technology well, students will be doing the research, listening to the discussion, and evaluating themselves. As long as we continue to evolve with the growing use of technology, our lesson will become diverse.

Below is a video with a few other possible ideas for instructional technology being used in the classroom.

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