This document outlines the author's experiences with educational technology over time, from kindergarten where they were first introduced to computers in the 2nd grade, to using various technologies in high school and college, and their vision for incorporating more modern technologies like iPads in their own classroom teaching. The author discusses challenges of limited time with students as a resource teacher and integrating new technologies while covering required curriculum.

1. Technology and Me
A personal timeline
of educational technology

2. Overview
My name is ʻAwapuhimele Napoleon-OʻBrien
I started school in 1983 in Hoʻolehua, Molokaʻi
I graduated from high school in 1998 in Kapālama,
Oʻahu
I first went to college at Brigham Young University in
1998.
While completing my degree I have used the different
strategies learned to improve the quality of my
programs and set my students up for success.

3. My definition
of educational technology
-Teaching that
incorporates various
forms of technology
to direct, support,
and reinforce
learning.

4. Web sites on ed tech history
***Click an image to access the web link***

5. Kindergarten technology
• Televisions with VCR or
Beta
• Radio for music and
reading.
• Computers introduced to
the classroom in 2nd grade.
• No computer at home.

6. High school technology
• TV
• Overhead Projector
• Computer Labs
• Internet
• Digital Cameras
• No more card
catalog!
• Computer at home

7. College technology
• Personal
Computer
• LCD Projectors
• EBook's
• Distance Learning
• Laulima
• Elluminate
• Skybridge

8. A vivid technology
learning experience
• Fall intersession music curriculum
• Integrated Edmodo, GarageBand, YouTube,
and various Hawaiian music websites.
• In order for my students to succeed, I needed
to know how to use and teach them how to
use each form of technology.

9. A technology I want to use in
my classroom
I would love for each of my students to have their own
iPad and Bluetooth keyboard to access various websites,
apps, and to complete and submit assignments.

10. My vision of the classroom
of the future
• Some kind of fieldtrip
capability (virtual/actual)
that would allow
students to experience
places all around the
world. Students would
feel as if they are
actually there.

11. A challenge for teaching
• I am currently a resource
teacher, spending only 4.5
hours(1.5 hours for 3 days) a
month with my students.
• I have a set curriculum that I am
expected to teach. Most of
which takes place outside.
• I need to make the time to figure
out how to incorporate
technology into my lessons.
Making use of the limited time I
have in the classroom while still
covering what has already been
set.

12. Words of wisdom
• “We need technology in
every classroom and in
every student and
teacher’s hand,
because it is the pen
and paper of our time,
and it is the lens
through which we
experience much of our
world.” – David Warlick