Teaching Creativity with Technology

As a teacher candidate, I want to be able to teach my students in a relevant and beneficial way. I want to use time efficiently, so that we can maximize the hours during the school day to reach each student’s learning potential. Because I will be teaching in the 21^st century, my teaching will most likely need to include sort of technology, depending on what grade I teach. For teaching preschool, the use of a video with visuals and audio recording could be helpful to introduce a new idea or method. This same app could be used in a third grade classroom, but with modified content.
            

As far as using other technology in the classroom for early childhood, I believe stations of iPads set up would be good. There could be easy to use apps that would reinforce what the lesson instructed and taught. This would give the kids a chance to practice on their own by constructing their own knowledge with free play on a iPad with assigned apps/games.
            The negative consequences of technology in the classroom is that plagiarism may be more tempting for older grades, and for both secondary and primary grades- identity theft and online security could become problematic. The students, from an early age, though, need to learn how to be safe on the internet. This could something taught even in preschool and kindergarten because technology will only continue to be used more and more as they get older and media improves and expands. As the students learn the applications and safety features of the tools, they can be free to express themselves creatively through their power-points, photo stories, and other apps on the iPad. This will enable students to feel more free about the work they do, as if their opinion and the way they express themselves matter.