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How to use some technology tools in my own classroom...

In this blog, I am going to discuss a few ways to implement technology tools in my own high school psychology class.  Throughout this last semester, I was able to gain some experience and use a lot of the tools that are out there for teachers.  A lot of the tools were quite fascinating and will give me more ways to engage the students in the course work.  I am actually excited to be able to use some of them.  However, since Utah doesn't have set standards for psychology and, as a psychology teacher, I have quite a bit of room to do what I choose, I will use a set of "standards" that the Davis School District has given their teachers to help them organize lessons.  I will mention three specific standards and which tool I can use for each. One "standard" is the biological bases of behavior.  It is really interesting to teach about the brain and how it contributes to behavior.  The one tool that I thought of that I could use to teach this would be Wikis.  In parti