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Diana Dray
EDU 225
December 21, 2014
Mr. M

Enhancing Instruction
Students today live in a digital era and has significantly changed from previous
generations. These modifications need to be understood by educators if they are to facilitate
effective learning for digital-aged schoolchildren. Teachers can use technology for numerous
activities in the classroom to enhance learning. Fortunately for educators today attending college
are entering teaching in an era where technology is widely used already. This benefits soon to be
educators greatly. The use of technology in the classroom will enhance the learning for all
students.
As a teacher, always incorporating technology in my lessons is very important in todays
youth. Teachers who use technology effectively will enhance students intelligence. Providing
effect skills also provides the necessary skills needed for employment of the future (Gunter,
Gunter, 2014). Students today are different in the way they learn from previous generational
students. They think, in the way they access, absorb, interpret, process, and apply information,
(Gunter, Gunter, 2014). Students use the internet to communicate with one another, the youth
understand the way the web works as well. Providing technology in my classroom lessons
would benefit my students. Incorporating math lessons using the interactive white board is just
one way I could use technology. The interactive white board is used to increase the richness of a
lesson plan among peers in a classroom (Linder, 2012). Students can interact with one another in
small groups, they can display knowledge that students learn in the lesson and compare with one
another. Websites are actually downloaded to the white board so the board is ever changing. The
interactive white board is just one of the many that can be used to enhance learning in the
classroom.

With any type of advancement in a classroom, lays pros and cons; integrating technology
into classroom lessons has pros and cons. First off, the use of technology is very beneficial.
When used appropriately, technology has the potential to enhance students achievement and
assist them in meeting learning objectives (Gunter, Gunter, 2014). Students need the
appropriate skills for todays world and how will students learn if the educators do not provide
the lessons. Teachers have found that using technology in their classroom, captures the attention
of the youth and improves students results (Gunter, Gunter, 2014). The lack of funding in public
schools changes how teachers incorporate technology in the classroom. Not all schools provide
the same tools therefor not all students are learning the same. Most educators have access to
computers in classrooms, only one in five say they have right level of technology, according to
a recent PBS national survey of teachers. The increase of technology for the youth to learn,
teachers need the tools in the classroom. Funds need to be available to help incorporate the
increase of technical in the digital era.
With technology being integrated in classrooms, the use of wireless verses a wired
connection continues to be discussed among educators. The use of a wired connections means a
control and sense of security, speed and reliability are other benefits. Schools can have full
control of what is being used in the schools networks. Administrators and staff can see who and
what is being done online as well. Wireless connections are becoming a big deal in technological
world. No more cables laying around the room, the internet runs faster, and students can access
the internet from any device that has the internet available. Schools can also connect in the
building as well as other computers in schools around the network (Gunter, Gunter, 2014).
Wireless and wired connections both have the benefits, but in my classroom the use of wireless
would be the preferred internet connection.

Glenda A. Gunter, Randolph E. Gunter, (2014). Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating

Technology in a Changing World. 8th ed. : Centage Learning.
Linder, S. M. (2012). Interactive Whiteboards in Early Childhood Mathematics. YC: Young
Children, 67(3), 26-35.