Question 1: How can and will you use technology in your classroom?

The more that I study and learn about education and learning, the more I am convinced that learning is most successful when it is hands on and applicable to real life.  The technology and manipulatives we have be introduced to and been given a chance to try out would definitely be very useful in my own classroom and teaching.    I definitely plan to use manipulatives like Geogebra and other online applets to illustrate concepts as I teach them.  I also would like to make lesson activities using Geogebra and other applets to allow for discovery activities for my students.  I may also use the CBLs and graphing calculators to collect real data to then graph and analyze in my algebra-based classes as well.  I think these various technologies could be used for review purposes as well, but I don’t think that is necessarily something I will use them for in my classroom.