Now what?

As a final year, graduating Education student, where do I go from here. I've learned so many different strategies regarding the use of technology in the classroom, the benefits and risks, and multiple reasons to use it.

But now what? How do I take this new knowledge and put it into practice?

The most obvious "now what" is to use this new knowledge in a classroom. Not quite that simple, but that is the goal. I'm in the middle of the application process, pulling together reference letters, editing my resume and editing it some more, creating my e-portfolio...

I'm so excited to use what I have learned - to promote technological literacy, to teacher proper use of technology, to engage my students, to increase learning, and more. I feel well-equipped not just to use the technology we have learned about, but to experiment with and implement new technology as it comes along.

In the meantime though, as I finish up my post-secondary education, before I find myself using technology in a class, I can be sure to do two things - First, I can practice the use of technology in my placement class. While every school has different forms of technology and different levels of technology integration, each place is a new challenge and a new opportunity to use whatever technology is available in new and authentic learning experiences. Secondly, I can, by way of websites such as Edudemic and Twitter, continually become aware of the new education technology that comes out, and new research on the way that it can be used in the classroom.