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Technology Integration Essay

The video I selected to watch was called “Connecting High School to College and Career”. My reason for choosing this was because I am going into secondary education and I fully agree with teaching students things that will benefit them in their future careers. This video was very interesting because it showed something that I have never seen before. I have heard of schools that high school students are allowed to attend that would let them focus on an area of interest and still receive credit for. In Jefferson County Colorado there is a school called Warren Tech. I liked the video a lot mainly because the school gave kids the option in what area they wanted to acquire more knowledge and skills. I find it great that they use a project based learning curriculum because it engages the students more. I also really enjoyed that fact that California wants to change the emphasis of all high schools to be more career building. I learned about the importance of technology integration in the way that I saw how engaging the students more actually increase the interest in education. The video showed students being able to learn in areas such as animation, health field experience, engineering, mechanics and so much more. High school is a great time in a student’s life to open their eyes to certain areas of curriculum. By doing this high school is able to become a preparatory for higher education and future careers. Teachers were able to apply technology in great ways because the technology allows the students to more involved in a variety of ways. With animation students are able to get a head start on the technology used in that field, same with different fields of engineering. Even with math technology is used to engage students to see a visual of problems. Technology integration is a great way to engage students more in a variety of subjects and help form interests in those subjects. With technology in the classroom it opens the door to creating more visuals and incorporating normal curriculum to real world situations or future career situations.