Teachers Integrate Tech in CCSS

        Fred Sitkins says that there couldn't be a better time to see technology integrated into the Common Core State Standards.  While the CCSS are being adopted and adapted to, educational technology is making its grand entrance.  This brings many possibilities for children.  It puts the world at their fingertips.  Educational technology makes sharing and interacting with others easier than ever before.  While students  read iBooks they can define words and share notes with their peers and teachers.  This process is easy for teachers as well.  This transformation clearly shows how students are learning.  Through educational technology students obtain knowledge, demonstrate what they have learned, and share it with the global community.
        Yes, I would consider myself as an advocate of educational technology, however, I feel that this may handicap our children.  In high school, my math classes were in the process of converting over to the complete use of calculators.  So I had the privilege of learning how to answer problems with and without one. Therefore, the question is will students become so dependent on technology that they get lazy.  Traditional educational models are not a bad thing.  It takes more work though, but neither is that a bad thing.  I do not want to create students who are dependent on anything else other than their God given brain.  Unfortunately, this world is becoming technical based and may, as a consequence, handicap us all.  Some people are lost without their phones, but wasn't it only thirty years ago or less that cellular devices were invented?  I want students to gain as much knowledge as they can, but I do not want to leave them dependent on anything prone to failure.  In the next twenty years will students know what wood pencils are?  Will they know how to sharpen one?  Is the world being at their fingertips really a good thing?  Would they use the perks of technology responsibly or take advantage of it?  Of course I think that this integration is a good thing, but I do feel that the consequences of it all will leave our students dependent.  I would like to see technology used as a convenient accessory.  However, our growing technical world says otherwise so I do feel that this integration is for the better and will greatly benefit our students in and out of the classrooms.