Technology in the Classroom

I believe technology is a resource to increase knowledge to the inquirer. It is imperative for teachers to integrate different methods of learning into the curriculum. Technology is one of those methods used in a classroom that may become very helpful for both the teacher and the student. I believe that technology is a form of language that breaks down barriers that were once there, because teachers are able to automatically bring up worksheets and have it displayed in the classroom for example. Technology allows having the class review any resource and even write down the answers right on a smart board. Technology is used everyday; our houses are equipped with technology, from air conditioning as a commodity to the stove used to create the essentials of life, food. We use electric toothbrushes, electric razors, alarm clocks, and television sets where we obtain an ever increasing percentage of our knowledge. Computers have become the modern books, an easier way of accessing information; increases knowledge, increases ways of searching, it allows the inquirer to have all type of information at the end of their fingers tips from the comfort of their home. Technology disables the inquirer to go outside to search for knowledge; technology enables the inquirer to use it in a sufficient manner, well that is if indeed the inquirer is properly using it. I still believe in the importance for the inquirer to search outside of their comfort home, to create projects boards and use clay to form their hypotheses instead of using illustrator or Photoshop for example, but I am also very aware the importance of implementing the habit in students to use technology for their advantage; search engines is a rare form that it has taken a world of their own, because there is absolutely nothing that compares to having a thought or desire to enter it into a search engine and magically for it to appear, giving you the accessibility to the wishful knowledge that is typed.