Reflection

I see technology all around me and yet I worry that it'll be hard to get in my future classroom. However, I realize that creative teachers can really do a lot--and the most important part of getting this technology in the classroom is to do research and try, ad not just say, "I could never have that in my classroom."
For an assignment in a teaching literature and reading, I got to design my dream classroom. I decided, if I could have anything, I'd definitely have a computer projector on the ceiling, just like in so many BYU classrooms, as well as a laptop locker so all my students could have laptops (if you're wondering, I also had a lot of non-technology items, too).
Thinking, I realized that maybe when I'm a teacher, it might be easier to get enough laptops that every 3 students could have one so they could do group work in the classroom.
Now I do think a laptop for every student is a little silly. I own a laptop, and I hate to carry it around. Also, it's been proven that students who take notes on laptops don't remember and understand the notes as well (or so my Student Development teacher says--maybe I should find his sources). In fact, many parents think it's innappropriate for their children to own laptops because they bring them in their rooms where a parent can't monitor. I suppose this one is easy enough to solve--parents need to enforce rules, not teachers.
I prefer the idea of teachers having class sets and allowing students to use them at designated times (which can be often) but not allowing them all the time.
But back to my dream classroom: even if I could only get together 1 for every three students, they could still work in groups in class (and working in groups is one of the best ways to learn.) about anything, including internet searching.