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This video encourages me as a future teacher to engage my students by using technology.  Students today already use many forms of technology everyday.  Why not use this same technology to help the students learn in an exciting way in the classroom?  This form of teaching would ensure the student's attention and excitement. I believe technology use in the classroom would always keep the lessons new and interesting.  This video opened my eyes to new ways to use cell phones, ipods, and other electronics in the classroom that I had never thought about before.

The fact that very low percentages of students who will actually graduate from highschool felt as if the work they are doing in school would actually help them in there future careers.  This is a shocking fact to hear because these are the students who are graduating and going out into this world to hopefully make a positive impact.  These students are going to school to gain more knowledge to take out into the world, yet these same students feel the work they are completing in highschool has little meaning and effect on them.  I believe the students should be eager to learn new things and technology could be the key to that.

Technology has little use in most of my current classrooms.  Only in two out of my five classes do we actually use technology outside of the classroom for assignments other than writing papers.  Maybe if we use more technology in our classroom students would be more engaged in the lessons. In my future classroom I  would really like to use technology when possible.  This video allowed me to see many ways technology can be used in the classroom that I did not even think about before.  I believe this would keep my students interested and eager to learn in a new way.