Sephan's first blog post

This is Sephan's first blog post (he is having trouble positing, but he talks about me so I thought it was of the highest importance).

After reviewing the first few chapters professor Glassman’s Educational Psychology and the Internet and some of our classroom discussion I began to think about how we are using technology and especially tablets in my classroom. I believe that we are not using technology and tablets to the full potential that we could be in a classroom. I think technology should be used for a lot of good research as well as increasing human Internet transactions. Technology and tablets today are use more as toys and busy work. In most elementary and middle schools, the original purpose as a communication service has been left behind in many classrooms. In Dr. Glassman's book, he talks about a combined intelligent, these include combining collaborative, swarm and open source/collective intelligence. I believe especially in the case of tablet in middle schools. With a little more effort from teachers and companies developing better inclusive classroom curriculum programs, which I believe will be coming there is no limit.  As a near term goal I think more effort needs to be taken into connecting these the entire school and public library and any books the students will be using. The reason for this is to partially eliminate the use of textbooks or at least reduce the expense of textbooks in public schools. We will use programs like in the original eBook readers that allow students to highlight, take notes. The teacher can even track students’ progress or ask questions of students, each chapter in the book can have automatic check on learning, the teacher could automatically give feedback to students directly inside these programs. In classrooms, the programs can be used to properly research and increase that human Internet transaction, this develops that combined intelligent action need. These are just some things that I think we could improve on with technoly for the masses in the classroom instead of just having toys in our classrooms

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