Integrating Technology in the classroom

My personal experience with computers in the classroom is mostly throughout my k-12 experience I did not need to use a laptop of any sort, but we did have a computer lab from elementary school up until high school at the schools I attended. It was fairly basic, we never used them on an everyday basis except when I took the class computer skills in high school which actually was mostly a typing class. My ideas for integrating technology in the classroom is mostly to start kids using computers at a younger age, this is very important because I did not start using a computer until middle school and I think children should at least learn to open up a browser and start learning to type before then. I think for children of a younger age I would start playing computer games with them that also incorporate learning. I also think something like this would be good for students at a high school level, its a more interesting way to do homework. I think my biggest issue that I see happening with using technology in the classroom, is sometimes students are more reluctant to do everything over the computer, also I don't like to depend on the internet. The internet can be flakey, you can go in and out of service, and so on, so I could see that being another issue to run into.Print Page in IE