First Blog for LTEC 3440 What I hope to learn this semester

Over the semester I am looking to learn more about how our educational systems are integrating technology into the classroom and how this flows into our dealings outside of the classroom. With my wife already being a teacher it is amazing how different the teaching environment is to when I was in elementary. Kids now days are doing in kindergarten what I was doing in the 9th grade. Furthermore, as technology continues to accelerate and we become more connected as a society what this will mean in different areas of learning. Such as the methods of instruction, how we interact with lessons and one another, and how to combat plagiarism as our works increasingly shift to the digital age. The most important thing I hope to learn is about how our different learning styles mesh with this new digital age. With E-readers and our cellular phones performing more and more tasks, we are becoming a much more portable society