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How did understanding the standards and the Pre-Admission Competencies Verification help you design your Field Experience plan? How can your use your ePortfolio to help others understand how to integrate technology more effectively in the classroom?


 * Description** - The biggest problem for a student/teacher trying to enter into the technology field, especially with incorporating these ideas in the classroom is the unfamiliarity with what to use in the classroom or even what to do. The technology standards help lay the groundwork for what an educator can use in the classroom, so they can begin implementing these ideas in the classroom. Getting started is easily the most difficult change to make, especially when an educator has already started formulating their teaching plan. Implementing technology fully is a difficult and time-consuming process. The Pre-Admission Competency Verification also helps the average educator see what they already do prior to full implementation, which is important because teachers often don't fully think about all the technology they already use. Eventually the ePortfolio will provide another live example of different technology being used in the classroom by classroom teachers.


 * Impact -** Technology is important for our education system today because students are so used to technology in their everyday life. Although I do believe that traditional education is still important and useful, using books and direct instruction, technology can provide the learning environment with so much more. Student interest is key to keeping motivation up, which in turn should help raise student achievement.


 * Intent** - The intent of these technologies is to improve student achievement in the fields of the future. By learning and using the standards any educator can take the steps to incorporating this information in the classroom. I think the biggest problem teachers face is not knowing what different ideas to implement in their classroom. I would like to go about incorporating different technologies in the classroom, but at the same time it takes at times hours of research and planning to come up with a solution. The Pre-Competency Verification gives teachers the ability to see what they are already doing to go along with the potential for newer ideas to spring up.