EdTech 2: Moving Forward Towards Technology Enhancement

The memoirs of EdTech 1 were still vivid in my mind. It was with that course that I was able to learn and master the use of technologies and on how to apply it in teaching. Much to my learning was the making of power point presentations with all the desired designs and animations. Now as I step my foot forward to EdTech 2 I come to the point of asking myself “What’s it this time?”

   Since Educational Technology 2 is much concerned with integrating technology into teaching and learning, I’m looking forward to an adventure that will surely cater my curiosity and passion to learn more skills and apply it in a greater sense of ease and confidence. I expect it to be cool and enjoyable just like making this first blog of mine. You see how technology brings about our ideas and opinions. You might take a grasp in reading this blog or might find this boring but hey this is what technology is. I may choose to leave it all behind my emails or word doc but we’re into the world of blogging now. See the difference? Feel the thrill?

            Moreover, I wish to update my knowledge of what educational technology bring about and how will it produce “magic” inside the classroom. Yes, this would mean that it involves a deeper sense of understanding the computer as well as a hands-on application of computer skills. Will it be so scary and hard? I wish it wouldn’t.

            Indeed we are bombarded with the pressures of using technology and upgrading it but we, as education student should never be afraid of taking up the steps in enhancing our knowledge for this is our preparation for a tougher future that waits. So come on, leave your worries behind and together lets unravel this thing one at a time.

To end this up, I would like to share my reading from “The Last Book That You Will Ever Read” by Frank Ogden. It says there, “Changes in technology will alter the way we live, the way we love, the way we think, the way we dream, the way we create. We are moving from a lowly state as worker caterpillars into creative and beautiful butterflies. Working our way out of the chrysalis is like escaping from a dark crypt. After a momentous struggle, what emerges is not what existed before.” M y dear classmates, we are like butterflies but let’s put into our mind and our heart that a butterfly doesn’t operate like a caterpillar and is not grounded by gravity. Like the emerging butterfly, we have left our formative stage. It’s about our time to fly and learn more by putting our commitment and expectations into a vision that would be transformed into a reality provided we do our thing in this EdTech 2 journey.