My 20% Project Relfection

Overall, I thought my 20% project went well. I ended up really enjoying this project. I learned a lot about things that interest me. I want to use technology in my future classroom, so it was great that I got to explore this topic through EDIT 2000. I learned that there are many advantages to SmartBoards in classrooms and few disadvantages. Some disadvantages include cost and immobility, but I think the advantages out way the disadvantages. Some of the advantages of SmartBoards are the ability to create engagement in a classroom. Students are engaged when working with SmartBoards and doing activities on them. They are interactive and allow for creativity for students in classrooms. Students also learn through doing hands on activities. Because you can touch the SmartBoard and use its "markers" to draw and move things around on the board, when students are participating in SmartBoard activities, they are learning through hands on activities.

I liked how I also explored different technologies that could be used in classrooms such as iPads and Apple TV. Eunbae gave me that idea and I appreciate it. I think in the future, iPads may replace SmartBoards in classrooms. However, when presenting my 20% project to someone in class last Thursday, someone brought something to my attention that I had never thought of before. One disadvantage of Apple TV and iPads is that you cannot touch the screen like you can with SmartBoards. They brought this to my attention when they asked about Apple TV, and I had not thought about that.  When using iPads and Apple TV as a way to project the iPad screen in a classroom, students have to be holding an iPad to move things around. They cannot go to the projected screen and touch things and move it around like they can on SmartBoards. So in this way, SmartBoards have an advantage over iPads and Apple TV. 

I really enjoyed doing this 20% project. I will be interested to find out if my prediction about iPads replacing SmartBoards in classroom will be true or not! My Prezi Presentation that I used can be found here. Thanks for a great semester and I hope you enjoyed reading about my project!