This document summarizes Ji Eun Lee's personal experiences with educational technology over time. It describes having no computers in kindergarten in the late 1990s in Korea, using a basic computer at home. In high school in Hawaii in the 2000s, the library had computers for classes to use. In college in 2010, students used clickers, smartphones, tablets, and turned in assignments online. Lee hopes to incorporate more technology like laptops and language learning software into their future Korean language classroom.

1. Technology and Me
A personal timeline of educational
technology

2. Overview
Ji Eun Lee
Started school in 1998 in Seoul,
Korea.
Graduated from high school
in 2010 in Hawaii.
First went to college at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa in 2010.
Hope to become an ESL teacher when I
finish my degree.

3. My definition
of educational technology
…is using technology for educational
purposes to enhance students’ learning
with new tools and to help them
develop skills for 21 st centur y, such as
collaboration, cooperation and
competition.

4. Web sites on ed tech histor y
• YouTube’s Histor y of Educational
Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-z1iXz3SD
• Edudemic’s The Evolution of Classroom
Technology
http://edudemic.com/2011/04/classroom-technolog
• Ezine Articles’ Histor y of Educational
Technology

5. Kindergarten technology
• No computers at schools.
• I had a 286 computer that used DOS
as its OS at home. But, I used it only
for playing games, not for educational
purposes at all.
• I had a color television at home, but
schools were not equipped with it yet.
Hewlett-Packard Vectra 286 by The Wilhelm Schickard Museum of
Computing History
http://www.cs.cuw.edu/museum/Vectra286.html

6. High school technology
• There was a librar y with a set of
enough computers for one class, which
we occasionally visited to work with
the computers.
• Scientific and graphic calculators were
available for math and science classes
as well.
TI-84 Plus Silver Edition by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_ti84pse.html

7. College technology
• i>Clicker was used in some of the
classes.
• Most of the students had smartphones
or tablet PCs.
• Computer labs were available.
• Most of the assignments were required
to be turned in via online.
Laulima (2012)
https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal

8. A vivid technology
learning experience
• Smart phones and tablet PCs
• Blackboard Collaborate
Galaxy S III by SAMSUNG (2012) iPad by Apple (2012)
http://www.samsung.com/us/article/galaxy-s-iii-designed-to-make-life-easier
http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

9. A technology I want to use in
my classroom
• I teach Korean language to the second
generation of Korean immigrants at
Korean Cultural School and there are
no computers at all. So, I just want
one computer lab equipped with
microphones and speakers for
language learning.

10. My vision of the classroom
of the future
• Ever y student will
have access to
technology in
classrooms.
• Smart Board is
equipped in ever y
classroom.
• When it comes to
PD in a Technology Enhanced Learning learning, students
Environment by Rebecca Morrison (2011)
do not only read,
http://csdtechpd.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/pd-in-a-technology-enhanced-learning-environment/
but they get to
smell, listen, taste,
and touch.

11. A challenge for teaching
• Not having
enough numbers
of technology!
• Different levels
of students’
technological
knowledge.
Chapter One: Preparing by Jordan Caraviello
http://jordancaraviello.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/chapter-one-preparing/

12. Words of wisdom
• The principle goal of education is to
create men and woman who are
capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other
generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Brother and sister using electronic devices
by Vanessa Van Pettern (2011)