How Technology helped my teaching

Where would we be without technology in teaching?  Although teaching is about the presentation of the teacher and engaging with our students, technology plays a big part within structuring lessons and preparing the teacher to deliver the most effective module both in and outside the classroom. Gone are the days of big puffs of chalk as the teacher bangs the erasers together with interactive boards having been introduced, which are connected to computers and PowerPoint’s, Pinterest and other programmes can be used as aide-memoires of the teacher and a visual aid for the learners.

Learning and teaching can now be 24 hours with the use of the Internet; VLE’s, social media, email and Google search all playing an important part of modern day education. From a teaching perspective lessons and assignments and extended reading material can be posted on VLE’s such as Moodle and blackboard, can be accessed by students any time and any place, hopefully ensuring that all students are up to date with their work and can be more engaged in lessons as do not have to make the same amount of notes.

Online registration and turninit can provide an online record of attendance and assignments handed in and grades, making scraps of paper every where a think of the past. 

As I'm finding my feet as a teacher I think I would be a little lost without technology as I found it real gives structure to my lessons and suppose is some sort of a comfort blanket holding my hand while these 16 year old students look at me with confused expressions on their faces. I do always love the use of a video in class just short and brief but think real helps the students grasp a concept and but fresh on the bones of what i am teaching them.

Although technology is great as a teacher, there is always the few seconds of blind panic when a video won't load or the sound isn't working;