Which strategies are most effective for teaching and learning with technology?

As far as teaching technology I think the best way for teachers to learn is to use it, and use it often. But for students a kind of show and tell is the best way because that is the easiest way to learn technology in a classroom setting. But one thing that everyone must understand is that to learn technology, to really learn it, you must use it, if you learn how to use something and then never do it then you lose that information and can never really be comfortable use whatever technology you just tried to learn. But speaking of the technology revolution in our schools and learning and teaching. I think that we must teach all of our administrators and teachers about this new technology and how to integrate that technology in the classroom. If we do this I think that this revolution will be better accepted across the country and it will happen faster. But if we continue to let technology scare us and scare the older teachers in the schools systems we will never be able to integrate technology into our schools. Or it will take years for us to be able to integrate something that should only take one or two years. I also think it is important for all teacher and student for that matter to petition the government to adequately fund our school system so that we can get this technology. Because, for me as a student who always went to public schools, I am tired of our country priding itself on our education and then turning around and cutting school funding, it make no sense, because we are then jipping the generation that come after us. Teacher should not have to do more with less, because to get this technology into the class rooms and to give our kids the best education we can, in takes money, and that is the key to winning this type of revolution in the classroom. Before the end of the year I think that we should discuss this in the classroom because I its something we will all have to deal with, and I think that it is an important issue for every teacher and student in the country. I would also, if possible, like to see us write a letter to the governor or maybe one of our Senators about the funding issue as well. I don’t know, I just think that this is a great topic for class that will would really like to spend some time on, to get other peoples perspective.

But so far I’ve learnt so much and am excited to start integrating technology into my classroom and really start coming up with my own ideas and new ideas on how to use technology in my classroom. The only thing that I would like to see