My Future Goals

I would like to list some future goals and some concerns of mine as I continue my studies in hopes to become a future art educator.  These are some personal goals or concerns relating to technology and some that are more general. I find these to be the current, main concerns that pop up into my head on occasion:

1.) I would really like to become more familiar with the iPad. This is the first technology I have felt semi "out of the loop" with, as I've only held one once while helping a student with her homework. Her assignment was to type up an essay she had written. I watched her do this and watched her struggle with the application similar to Microsoft Word. I wish I could have been more help than I was. I was able to help her change the settings of the application so that after more than two spaces, it didn't automatically put a "." for her, as I'm familiar with this setting on my iPhone. I'm generally pretty knowledgeable with Apple products, but I haven't had the time to explore an iPad and I feel that I should soon. My friend who is student teaching recently told me that each student in his class had just received one, and that made me feel uneasy that I am unfamiliar with them. I know that they can be an extremely beneficial tool, but am also unaware of its capabilities as of yet.

2.) I've been researching projectors for quite awhile now and they're expensive!! I've always been fond of old projectors with the slides (this is what is still used in my studio art classes), but I would love to have a projector that hooks up to my computer, and is user-friendly. I had the privilege to learn how to hook one up in my Visual Arts Workshop class and it wasn't too difficult. If a school was not able to provide one for me, I would love to have my own. Id prefer the use of a projector over a SmartBoard, as I think they are easier to use.

3.) I just have recently heard of "Google Glasses": click here to read about them
When I think of the future, this is exactly what I think of. These glasses are basically a computer right in front of your eyes. I can't even imagine what kind of effect this would have in schools! If these actually became popular, there'd be problems even getting students to engage with each other anymore or peeling their eyes away from the computer for a second. Like always, teachers would have to adapt their instructional plans.