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I'm Michela, and I'm a Social Science Education major at FSU. I am hoping to teach history and maybe English after graduation. I have taught my school's marching band as the Drum Major and the AVID freshmen as their tutor. I have really enjoyed teaching them all, and I especially love seeing the growth, fascination, and the connections students make with other ideas.

I haven't had much experience using technology to teach, for I have had limited opportunities and don't particularly like using it. I taught my AP European History class a few times, and we used an interactive, touchscreen whiteboard to present PowerPoints and show videos. I always found technology to be more useful as a supplement to the content being taught, and I disagree with using educational techonology just to fulfull a school requirement. I do, however, understand that it must be used and taught to teach students how to use it and troubleshoot.

In this class, I hope to learn about how to use educational technology and how to apply it well in the classroom. I generally dislike using technology, so I also hope to understand it better and be more comfortable with it. I am excited to be exposed to the wide variety of tools that teachers have and that are currently in development. I don't think my preference for using less technology will change, but I am open to learning whatever I can!

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  1. Lukas's Blog fa19September 2, 2019 at 12:09 PM

    That is great, Michela! It looks like you already have some teaching experience and this should definitely help you to make sense of a lot of things. I like your observation that tech sometimes is just school's requirements but there is a lot to that. I will say tech is not only a useful supplement but also goes hand in hand with the content. It should be designed and used for the sake of the learning objectives/ teaching goal instead of some miscellaneous gadgets.

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