1. EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
EDUC 511
Nathan Wolfe

2. TECHNOLOGY IS KEY
Technology is key:
• in expanding educational horizons
• in creating college and career-ready
students
• in developing life-long learners devoted to
relevant teaching
• in implementing innovative ways to
collaborate and participate in the learning
experience.

3. STATE OF TECHNOLOGY
With over 60% of students
preferring to use mobile devices to:
• check grades,
• take notes,
• access textbooks,
• research,
• collaborate with peers,
to deny such trends to flourish in the school
environment would:
• hinder students’ academic progression
• prevent them from learning how to properly
use current and evolving tools.

4. INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
While technology may
progress and innovations make learning
easier, unless teachers put forth the effort
to learn and implement such technologies
themselves, they will be rendered useless.
How to make learning come alive:
• use Mobile devices
• augmented reality apps
• gesture-based computing
• connecting peers through networked
learning

5. LEARNING RESOURCES
As technologies expand, so also
does the availability of learning
resources like:
• iPad textbooks created by teachers
• an increase of video-based learning
• educational gaming (all subjects)
With such resources, however,
comes the need for:
• instruction on digital citizenship
• teaching “netiquette”
• internet safety and privacy

6. Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire.
~William Butler Yeats
Technology is but a tool in education used to inspire furth
learning and self-initiated discovery.

7. PERSONAL LEARNING GOAL
With the use of technological innovations rising in teaching trends, my
goal in this program is two-fold:
• to provide relevant teaching for my students through a consistent use
of the digital
• to help me discover new and better ways to implement group work
and collaboration through technology

8. CONCLUSION
Equipped with a knowledge of
expanding digital innovations,
changing trends in today’s students,
and a desire to implement technology
to make learning easier,
I know this program will place me in a
position to be transformational
teacher I want to be.