Technology and Me: It's Been a Rocky Road

Technology and myself have had a rather rocky relationship. I usually tell people that we have an understanding. I hate technology and technology hates me. Whenever I have a big project or I am really depending on technology, it seems like it fails me. Whenever anything goes wrong, it seems like all that I can do is throw my hands in the air and stare at the screen. Because of this I am usually very reticent to try new things with technology. This is because I'm pretty sure that it will be beyond my capabilities, and I just don't want to deal with all of the frustration and discouragement. I tend to do things the hard way rather in order to avoid using technology as much as possible. I know that I need to change, but I really do hate technology. When it finally does work for me, it's usually because someone else has done most of it for me. Hopefully this class will help to improve my relationship with technology. I hope that it will help me to feel more comfortable and confident with technology and ease some of my fears about using technology. I also hope that I will come to understand how I can best make use of technology in my future classroom in order to help my students learn.