Comprehensive List of Technologies in Education

Technology in the classroom is versatile. As I contemplated the essential questions for our course this week, I reflected deeply on what exactly I was being assessed on. I wanted to answer the question in a way that shows I truly understand the concept and have a plethora of ideas to use in my classroom (that I will hopefully have one day). I wanted to rack my brain deeply for the different technologies that we have discussed in class, small groups, from previous classes, from my teaching friends, through my research, and what I have stumbled over in my journeys. I wanted to bring all of that together and create a little list of general pedagogical technologies and technologies that are more content specific.

General Pedagogical Technologies:

Computer

Projector

Doc-camera

SmartBoard

TV

1-1 devices

Mobile labs

Microsoft - Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Apple - Garageband, iTunes, iStation

Adobe - Photoshop, 

Social Media - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Google - Drive, Blogger, YouTube

Websites - Edutopia, Tedtalks, Netsmartz, Brainpop

Apps - Edmoto, Animoto, Socrative, Noise volume, (I found a TON on Scholastic's website!)

Thinglink

Prezi

Glogster

digital stories

podcasts

infographics

interactive whiteboards

Webquests

Content-specific Technologies:

Language: Infographics, apps and websites

Math: Smartboard manipulatives, websites, and drill kill apps

Science: telescopes, webquests, and digitial stories

Reading; ebooks, head phones, itunes and apps 

Writing this blog definitely gave me a comprehensive look at the different type of general pedagogical technologies that could be used, but as I was putting together my content specific technologies list, I realized they are intertwined. Ebooks work well to teach reading, but they can also be used in a science course. Webquests seem ideal for Social Studies, but why not used it to teach a math concept? I feel that technology is used in multiple ways across many dimensions of the curriculum. Unless I'm completely off course ... then I don't really know what type of content-specific technologies there are...