Technology and Me

A personal timeline of educational technology

Overview

My name is Leah JohnsonI started school in 1983 in

Albuquerque, New Mexico.I graduated from high school in

1997, in Albuquerque.I first went to college at University of

New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1999

When I finish my degree, I hope to become great teacher!

My definition of educational technology

Using 21st century tools and techniques to better understand concepts and engage learning.

Web sites on ed tech history

✦ A great timeline of technologies✦ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=1564172

✦ A huge collection of great videos and blogs✦ http://technologyhistory.blogspot.com/✦ Explore technology changes through history

in relation to society and education✦ http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/tnc.html

Kindergarten technology:

Experiences up till now are learning from the family

High school technology

College technology:Online and from where we

choose!

A vivid technology learning experience

Imax screens

A technology I want to use in my classroom

The Holodeck from Star Trek✦ A simulated reality facility

✦ Objects and People are simulated by holographic images

My vision of the classroom of the future

More fieldtrips and

involvement into the

community we live in.

A challenge for teaching

We are our own

Barriers

✦ Get Grants✦ Take classes✦ Ask the kids✦ Talk with

other teachers

Money

Time

Know-ledgeExperi-enceIntegra-tion

Words of wisdom

✦ "There's a lunatic in the lobby who says he's invented a device for transmitting pictures over the air. Be careful, he may have a razor on him."

✦ —Editor of the London Daily Express, commenting to a staffer on someone who had asked to see a reporter and was waiting downstairs

✦ "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

✦ —Ken Olson, President, Chairman, and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

✦ Oh how things have changed!