My name is Justin Dowden I am a junior at Ball State University. My major is School Health Education with a minor in Educational Technology. I will be student teaching in the Spring semester of 2014 and will graduate May of that year as well.
My goals continue to change as I congruently change personally and professionally. There are many factors that need weighing in order to chose a place for me to teach and that’s a personal matter not needed to be discussed currently. As far as whom, I would most like to teach middle school students or freshman in high school. I feel, it is at that time, they are most likely to be molded and influenced into the people they will grow up to be in the real world and I would like to be a positive influence. I will be teaching Health, Health Sciences, Physical Education, and possibly technology classes.
Technology is an exponentially growing custom within the youth of our nation and if we fail to satisfy this in schools students will get bored, tired, and rebellious. This is not in itself a reason to use technology. There are many reasons such as it is simply easier to get information across. It will keep students actively engaged with you and with their classmates.
I am enrolled in this course one, because I want to be able to appropriately be able to teach using technology and two, because I want to further my learning in technological resources. Three goals I would like to achieve during this class are 1) to learn new innovative ways, just as I have in the past, to teach or better myself 2) to understand the more ethical sides of technology and education and 3) to make connections between what I learn in my other classes and this class.
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