technology in the classroom

In both of my placements this semester, I have noticed that they are using some sort of technology. In the preschool class I am in, the teacher uses you tube a lot to look up the phonics songs for the children to do daily. In the kindergarten classroom, she uses the tv, computer, and cd player everyday to do new things. For example today they danced along to songs on the cd player, did their math lesson using the computer and the smart board, and she used the tv to watch a video on opposites. I really think using technology in the classroom is helpful because their are a lot of additional resources out there if you have access to them in your classroom. It also is a fun way to learn! The preschoolers know how to spell all of their colors, what each shape looks like, and their alphabet sounds due to these videos. I have some children in the kindergarten classroom that cannot do these things, and it might be due to the fact that they were not exposed to these activities in earlier years.