Journal 1

Owens, A,M, (2009).Do Your Teachers Need a Personal Trainer?. Learning and Leading With Technology, 36(8), 14-17.
In the article Do Your Teachers need a Personal Trainer? By Aileen M. Owens, many topics are discussed that relate to integrating technology in the classroom. Owens explains that it is important that teachers receive the support and training they need in how better to incorporate technology. The biggest question however is about funding. As districts are short on resources how can teachers get the technological training they need? It is surprising that an instructional technology coordinator can spend hours a week holding sessions with teachers on how to best integrate technologies that are difficult for students to pick up on. It is so great that with the help of volunteers, public school students can get the help that they need in learning to use technologies and the teachers get assistance with their lesson plans. In reading the article I began to think about the budget crisis exists in many public schools today.

How can they afford to implement instruction on technology both for students and educators? An idea that was expressed in the article was the use of student interns to go into the classrooms and provide instruction to the students based on technology. It would also be beneficial to help to help teachers with implementation of their lesson plans consisting of technology.

If such an internship program is not available for my future classroom, how could I help myself and future students in utilizing technology for learning? I suppose I could take extra course work, or familiarize myself better with the latest in technology. This would help me implement the technological lesson plans to my future students in a more efficient way.