Chapter 11

Audio and video technologies can engage the students' more and provide them with connections from school to the real worl.
One tradtional audio technology is a talking book.A talking book can be used for all levels of education. One way that a talking book could be used in a classroom is during reading. Instead of having the teacher or students' read right from the book, by having a talking book, students can follow along and be read too. For an example if the book was talking pundant squares, the teacher could be at the front of the room drawing examles of the squares while the students' learned about them. Once the reading was over, the teacher could visually show how they work.
An example of an emerging audio technology is the internet radio. An internet radio can be used in a classroom for other reasons besides providing background music. As a social studies teacher, one can talk about a certian event that has happened in the past. After explaining the event, the teacher could turn to a station on the internet radio, and the students can find ways that certian events going on in the present is related to the past event.
When it comes to visual technologies, a traditional example would be a bulletin board. Bulletin boards are more than just brightening up a classroom. They can be used to display anything. If an english teacher is doing a lesson a mysteries, they can place up different facts that the class knows from the reading. By posting the facts or clues on the bulletin board, all student's can see it and referr back to it.
An example of an emerging visual technology would be a document camera. A document camera is like an overhead, but can be used with more than transparents. If a science teacher is doing a lesson on rocks and minerals and has examples of them, they do not have to pass them around and worry about them getting broken. By using the document camera all students' can see the examples at the same time, and the camera can focus on certian parts of the rocks or mineral.

Chapter 6

I would prefer to teach in a classroom with more digital technology. By having more digital technology in a classroom, there are more chance for students to learn. Not only will they be able to learn from me as a teacher, but they will learn from doing hands on activities with the technology. There are so many different ways in which technology can help teachers' explain certain subject areas and it will help students' see how they can actually use the material outside of the classroom. Since this generation has a lot to do with technology, by having more digital technology available in a classroom, the students' will have more experience with the different types. Technology is a great invention and continues to grow, which will help teachers' more and more in the future.