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Joshua Petras Educational Vision I am a teacher. By definition, I have the responsibility to teach students.

Specifically, I have been given the job of teaching math to students. Growing up I never thought I would end up with this job, but after one year of experience I am hooked on the feeling of teaching a student something they never thought theyd learn. That is the end goal of my time in the classroom. During my time in college and my first year on a campus, I have wondered and discussed the nature of teaching. I knew it wasnt simply dispensing information, but something else had to be done in order to take students from hearing information to knowing information. For me, teaching has become a process of engagement. My biggest priority must be finding ways to engage students in the classroom in order to have them learn the content of the classroom. This is what I hope to get out of my technology program at Azusa Pacific. My goal is quite simple: to learn how to use technology as to make it my primary source for engaging students in my classroom. Students today need to be interested in the lesson in order to learn the content of the lesson. A teacher who expects the students to motivate themselves is a teacher who has never met a high school student. My hope through the APU program is that I am able to learn the technology as a tool for engaging my students. By using tools such as the iPad, applications like AirServer, along with other mathematical applications, I can take the technology used in the everyday life of my students and make them feel comfortable with it in the classroom. Visual images that teach graphing on an iPad may look the same as when they are written on the board, but the very fact they are on the iPad will cause students to engage. I understand that there will be two major barriers affecting how I accomplish my goal. The first will be money. All of these technological resources cost money and are constantly changing. I will have to weigh out when it is worth the money to by a new piece of technology and when it is not. The other barrier will be my effort. In order to use the best technology, I will need to extend my study of using technology in the classroom beyond the APU program. I will need to be a life-long learner of technology in order to accomplish my goal.

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