Chapters 4 & 5

1) How does this reading impact your thinking about technology's role in teaching and learning?
   As a teacher of the future, I think it is going to be very important to use and understand how new programs work and how to implement them into my classroom.  I think things such as blogs and wikis are great ways to have electronic cooperation between yourself and the students as well as the students with their peers.  It is important to stay up to date with technology because you know the students are going to be, so in order to keep them interested and active with the class you are going to have to engage them with technology...to an extent.

2) What will you do differently as a future teacher as a direct result of this new thinking?
    I think blogs and wikis should be dealt with at home and not while the students are actually in the classroom, it is important to keep them confident in social skills as well.  You don't want everything to be done behind a computer screen.  It is also a great way to keep the students active with the material while they are away from school.  This is a great tactic to keep them engaged even of they are not in the classroom.