How can technology help?

Here we are again, another week, another day.  It is crazy how the days fly by and how sometimes we do not stop to be thankful for the little things in life.  Last week I talked about how I took a social media break and how it helped me focus my time but one of the things that I truly missed was the easy ways to keep track of people and see how they are doing.  I found an article this week on "Your Kindergartener and Technology" it talked all about the ways that technology is used in every subject and how it can help students get introduced to new ways of thinking.  One of the parts that the author wrote about was for Social Studies with the technology we have now a days we can communicate with people from all over the world.  This is amazing! Thinking back to when I was in Africa last Christmas, I am so very thankful that we have technology so I can stay in contact with the people I met but even before I went there I was able to research and learn about the culture.  Technology also allows for students to see what it is like in other countries. Especially if the teacher knows someone in another country they can show us around.  This allows students at a young age to start accepting different cultures.  The use of technology though should not be a substitute to teaching but something that we can add to make the classroom more fun.  We also live in a world that is always changing and with all this information at our finger tips we are able to stay up to date on everything.  In closing for today I want to just pose a question of what would our world be like today if we did not have technology? It is crazy to think about right? Even though in the past people lived without we have become to attached to this and yes it can be bad, but also think of all the great things that have come with technology.  Our students need to start early and the classroom is a great place to introduce technology because it is a part of our world and you cant avoid it.