The document outlines Darren Ho's personal experiences with educational technology from kindergarten through college, including the progression from green screen Macintos computers to laptops and smartphones. It discusses his definition of educational technology and a vivid learning experience creating an HTML MySpace page. Finally, it presents a vision for the future classroom where each student has an interactive mini smart board and addresses the challenge of ensuring technology promotes original thinking rather than cheating.

1. Technology and Me A personal timeline of educational technology

2. Overview Darren Ho Started school in 1981 in Makiki Graduated from Hawaii Baptist 1999 Graduated from UH Manoa 2004 When I finish my degree, I hope to become a English Literature Teacher

3. My definition of educational technology …is the study and practice of utilizing and incorporating the most current and past technologies to facilitate, inspire, resource, and create learning opportunities

4. Web sites on ed tech history http://www.thejournal.com/articles/13739 http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html http://breda.myweb.uga.edu/Edit61002.html

5. Kindergarten technology My school had Macintosh computers, but owning a PC was rare. Computer screens were green and black Learned LOGO !

6. High school technology PCs were becoming widely used with color screens Advent of Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Internet takes off, Web 1.0 and the beginning of file sharing

7. College technology Laptops are widely used Web 2.0 in full swing Computers become pocket sized: cell phones, I pods, and PDAs. Internet can be accessed everywhere

8. A vivid technology learning experience First learned about and applied simple HTML through MySpace. Access to user created videos on YouTube opened up the world to be viewed.

9. A technology I want to use in my classroom I want everyone in my class to have an i pod so they can pod cast lectures and assignments where ever and when ever the students want.

10. My vision of the classroom of the future Mini Smart Boards for each student with up loaded text books and assignments. Each Board can seamlessly share information with students and teachers.

11. A challenge for teaching Sharing technologies can lead to cheating. Defining cheating and setting up more critical thinking tasks that encourage originality is critical.

12. Words of Wisdom “ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -Charles Darwin