To İntegrate Technology in My Classroom, According to Culture of My Students and My School.

To İntegrate Technology in My Classroom, According to Culture of My Students and My School.

I think technology is like a big ocean. Nowadays you can find lots of articles, experiences or videos about using technology in your classroom to make a good understanding. But It's important to recognise your school and your classroom. You can't apply the method as the same way that you found, heard or watched from somewhere. We (students and teachers) have diffrent cultures, diffrent levels and diffrent financial conditions. As a result we should integrate technology to ourselves.

Month  ago I attended XII. Annual Educatiıon Symposıum and I met new people(teachers, teacher trainers and coordinators). Especially I can say that I made a friend there who brought me new perspectives and showed new ways to use technology in my classroom like "Google Apps", "Geogebra" etc. And I started to implement some of these ways. 

• I started to use Google Docs to accumulate the homework,  answer keys (that I choose it from my student's papers to promote competetion among them) or some notes about lessons.
• On the other hand  Gmail, WhatsApp and Facebook help the students to contact me  for questions that they couldn't solve.

• And "GeoGebra"... I think it's very a useful program to make a good understanding in lessons about abstract thinking. Especially  It helps me in "Linear and Quadratic Equation's Graphics" lessons. I want to show some pictures that my students drew this Parabolas with using the program.

I want to add something. We have interactive whiteboards but it isn't practisable to write on it and solve the questions because of it's speed. So that we often use the classic whiteboard to avoid losing time. 

 I would also like to say, I have diffrent level students. Some of them don't use the ways that I mentioned or they decline the responsibility for some reasons. I'm looking for diffrent ways  to feature them in learning activities.

  So that I returned to my article's beginning. Technology is like an ocean you should decide how to make progress with recognise your students and your school.

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