Post 20 -C- Teacher gets rewarded for Technology

This article is the recognition of Diana Laufenberg instructional method and the technology award given to her by The Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AZTEA). The AZTEA granted her this award because of Diana ability to integrate technology into her curriculum and how it alters the heart of her classroom as well as affects the whole school community. Diana states "Ever since i have been teaching, i have been incorporating technology consistently." She has a really great philosophy to using technology in the classroom, she uses a variety of types of technology and uses them with a bunch of different projects. Also she takes all the different types of technology and ties them into her lesson and show her students how technology can change their life and their future. The different technologies Diana uses are: Blogs, streaming videos, Movie maker, Digital Mapping, GIS (geographic information system) and many more. Diana has been teaching for the last 10 years and she has been influencing the schools she teaches at and has been affecting the community's she teaches in. Every student who enters her classroom is placed in a technology intensive program and never hesitates for a minute, because Diana explains the technology in such a way that the students now it is worth it.

This article stands out to me because it is similar to the technology i want to implement in my class and she is close to the grade level and content i want to teach. I plan on using blogs in my classroom throughout the whole year and i am glad that it is proven it works and that she gets acknowledged for doing so. She is a great figure that i can look up to as a future social studies teacher and if it is possible in the future to use similar task and similar projects as she implements in her classroom. I would definitely like to research more about Diana and the wonderful technologies programs and activities she uses in her classroom. I am glad that teachers are being recognized for using technology in their classroom (and more should be in the future) instead of getting recognized for test scores. The schools need to realize that these test do not prepare the students for the future, but the work and curriculum the teachers use to teach the students in the everyday classroom.

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