Technology in the Classroom-Is there room for it?

Many educators are of the mindset that every bit of technology should be banned from school and should not be used while the child is in school, read the following article:


Schools Seen as Inhibiting Student Tech. Use

Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assigments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, according to a survey of educators, parents, and teenagers.
Teachers, for the most part, are not taking advantage of the tools that middle and high school students have widely adopted for home and school purposes, according to the sixth annual report of the Speak Up National Research Project. Those students should be given a more formal role in determining how new technology—particularly mobile devices, such as smartphones, and Web 2.0 tools, like social-networking sites–can be tapped to improve schooling, a report on the survey findings
suggests.
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Some podacsts that you may find on iTunes, or someother podcast feed that you may find helpful in your classroom are:
-Moving at the spee of creativity
-SMARTBoard lessons podcast
-Teachers connecting podcast
- Podcast for Teachers (techpod)


Times are changing, there is soooo much that we can do as educators to incorporate technology in our classes which may, in turn, encourage more of our students, which tend to be more tech. savvy than ourselves to become a part of the class room learning process. Read the article, leave your thoughts.