Technology in Classroom

Technology in the Classroom

University of Phoenix

Otis L. Amos

Business Communications

Instructor: Renee Columbus

March 8, 2010

Technology has completely improved the way we as teachers work. It has become an integral part of our lives and basic necessities of man are now wholly dependent upon technology. In my opinion, technology has prepared teachers to work faster and smarter and allows cognition of the teacher to focus on student achievement. The last decade is dedicated to the workmanship of technology and its impact on the human race. Technology has introduced smaller cell phones and internet capabilities.

There is no avenue that technology hasn’t assisted. As a teacher I can do now in an hour what it would have taken three (3) days to do years ago. This is possible due to the technological advance. The area of IS, information system that involves implementing, managing, and supporting computing in the workplace by non-IS technical specialists is called end-user information systems (EUIS). In many schools, end users are taking a much larger role in planning and developing information systems. A growing percentage of computing is being done by end users with little or no formal assistance from technical information systems specialists. This practice, called end-user computing, is made possible by the increasingly powerful fourth-generation software tools. With fourth-generation programming languages, graphic languages, PC tools, and Web software, end users can access data, create reports, design Web pages, and create entire information systems on their own, with little or no help from technical systems analysts or programmers.

Most of the workforce of mankind now works through technology. Thousands of industries and organizations around the world are now benefitting from technology. The educational system is no exception to the rule. Speaking as a teacher, technology is an answer to many problems. Technology has...