What do you need to work on?

Part of becoming better at using technology during teaching is doing a self assessment of your skills..  what are some areas that you need to work on to make more meaningful use of technology in your job?  


 I need to work on allowing my students to take more charge of their own learning. I have a very dependent class this year, so everything we do takes more guidance, and more time. Because of this, there are some aspects of technology that I normally do in my class that I have not done with my current class because "there is no time." So I tend to control some of the technology in the classroom instead of allowing them to use it for themselves.I need to work on making time so I can provide my students with the best kind of teaching practice that I know how to do. If time is still an issue, I need to work on how to better incorporate the technology in order to fit the needs of the current class that I have. I need to change and alter the technology for them, instead of waiting for the students to catch up to the technology. 


I know they are capable of understanding the technology because they have become very proficient with the smartboard. Some of my students know how to manipulate it more than some of the teachers in our building just from watching what I do with it. They are proficient with it because the smartboard is something we have used everyday since the beginning of the school year. So instead of taking time out from the needed reading/math instruction, I could try to gradually introduce something in smaller steps everyday and then have the students take over once I see most are ready to do it on their own and incorporate it into the core subjects. I just need to be a facilitator.