Infographic: Technology in Education

This graphic summarizes the impact technology has had on education over the years. It also provides examples of current technologies that teachers use in the English classroom. Researched advantages and challenges to these current technologies are also provided. The graphic concludes with technology examples that are new to the education world but possess the potential to become just as common as other current technologies. The advantages and challenges to those devices are also provided.

I personally want to expand my technology integration into my classroom by first adding blogs. Last year, I introduced my students to discussion boards in Google Classroom, and they seemed to really enjoy those! It gave them time to offer their opinion on a topic and demonstrate that it was valid because of research. I think blogs would be further useful in my English classroom because I also want to add journal writing for my students. So instead of weekly discussion boards on Google Classroom that seem so disconnected, I believe having them create a blog with two different tabs or categories for the different types of writing will help them learn!

Here are the sources that I used for this infographic more formally cited.

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