Opinion on the Equity & Cost associated with EdTech

In relation to my second published wiki research - Equity and Cost in EdTech, my personal opinion is that more time and resources need to be invested in poorer school districts including public schools and special education schools. Alot of money is being invested in Technology in schools, but we should ask ourselves "Is the technology resources being used to their fullest potentional?" From personal experience I don't believe that they are being used to the fullest. For example, I went to a private High school for four years and my freshamn year, the school invested in a whole new computer lab with MAC computers. The whole time I was in high school I didnt have one manditory computer tech class using the new computers. The only way in which I used my technology reasources was in accounting class my senior year and occasionaly printed off research information for a class assignment. Now, that I am in college and taking this Ed Tech course, I am already beginning to understand the important role of computers and the cost associated. Overall, write now I am writting this assignment on my MAC computer...which is ultimatly allowing me to search and learn about the importance of technology for when I am a teacher!

"Wired" Schools = "Wired" students

In relation to my first wiki - Educational Technology Defined, I agree with the statement that technology provides enormous improvments within the school system. Just looking at the "basics" that technology information provides today, compared to schooling 20 years ago we have come along way in growing. I do believe that if technology in education was a widespread as it is in the workplace (buisnesses) schools including the students, teachers, parents, and administation would be well adavanced. Personally as a student at the University of Delaware, tutor/mentor in a school, and a previous teachers assistant technology has helped me in new levels of understanding i would possibly not have been able to reach without it. As described in the Wiki, technology is helpful in communication. For myself, it has been extreemly helpful in the following: keeping track of my grades, contacting my teachers and advisor, staying in touch with my parents while at college, making powerpoint presentations for classes, finding articals for my biology lab write ups, using the dictionary provided by Microsoft word, and finding quotes for a research paper. As just described, without technology I don't know where I would be in my student life... I can only imagine how useful it will be when I become a teacher!