Black Horse Pike Regional School District’s mission statement, which is located on their website, states: “The Black Horse Pike Regional School District is a community of lifelong learners nurturing the development of critical thinkers and involved citizens prepared to lead fulfilling lives in a changing world.” The district is determined to serve its students’ and teachers’ and integrate an improvement in technological literacy, but at Highland Regional High School there seems to be a disconnection between teachers and school administration. This paper will explore what happens when teachers and students have access to technology in the classroom, how this access of technology can be both beneficial and detrimental to the teaching and learning experience, and why administration should be more involved.
Today, technology is a core component of the everyday lives of students all around the world. Integrating technology into the classroom is a very crucial and beneficial aspect of the teaching and learning process. Teachers are working hard to engage these students, who are too distracted from their cell phones, iPods, and iPads. Teachers are held at very high standards; they are responsible for teaching students the material based upon the Core Curriculum Content Standards, teaching and prepping …show more content…
The students who were working on the computers in Mrs. M’s class did not even try to hide what they were looking at from us when we were walking around; it was like they wanted to get caught and they were waiting to see what we were going to do or say about it. After all, it wasn’t like we were their teachers, anyway. I want to be able to use technology in the classroom, and I want to figure out how to keep students on task when all of this technology is within their