Which Five Would You Choose

I believe that the technologies that I would choose to have in my classroom would vary on what grade level I am teaching.  I believe this because, at the higher levels, there are more opportunities to integrate high-tech equipment into your daily lessons, with younger grades I believe that it is far more important to have lessons that encourage fine motor skills and creativity, not learning how to use an ipad game. With this said I will do my five based on my favorite grade, 1st grade.
Like many teachers, I believe all grades preschool-12 and above need at least one computer.  This is because there are so many fun, interactive computer learning games.  If not for the students, it makes tracking grades, creating worksheets and projects, and handouts easier for the teacher.
My second piece of technology is a SmartBoard.  After being a substitute in the lower level grades and being able to see these boards being used correctly I am a huge supporter of them.  It gets the students out of their desks and interacting with the lesson in a hands on way that is a fun way for them to learn, without them thinking that they're learning.
To go along with the computer, I believe that every classroom should have a projector.  This allows the classroom to have a large surface to watch videos/movies on.  While in the lower levels, movies are not frequent, they do allow for a great reward to a well behaved classroom.
Since the book lists speakers separately, I will list them separately as well.  Although I do not think the need for speakers in a classroom requires an explanation it goes along with the computer and projector as a needed technology in each classroom. 
As my final technology I will say I believe all lower level classrooms need a digital camera.  My reasoning for this doesn't necessarily apply to the students every day learning, but instead to a personal experience that I will forever be thankful for.  In first grade my teacher, Mrs. Whaite, took pictures of our entire classroom out on our field trips and at the end of the year surprised her students with a scrapbook of our classroom adventures through the year,  17 years later I still periodically look at that book and can remember the many memories that it holds.   I've always told myself that if I became an elementary student that I would do something similar for my students.
Technology in the classroom doesn't always have to be the top of the line, fresh off the line brand new.  It just has to be used correctly, efficiently and not as a crutch.

Digital Generation

I do believe that I am a part of the digital generation, or as someone that I know says the "head down" generation.  Mainly because most people my age are constantly on their phones, ipad, tablets, computers, ect.  I feel that, even though I am proud to say that I have been making an effort to not be a part of that generalization anymore.  Even though I am still trying to bring my mother into the 21st century and into a smart phone (yes she still has an EnV3),  I feel like I am a part of a generation that is going to raise a generation that will be completely dependent on technology.
While I was being home schooled - My mother used a really awesome CD learning tool, that I cannot remember the name of right now, and I can even remember some of the lesson (I can even sing the songs still).  She incorporated them for grades 1-5 and at the time people thought she was being a bad teacher by letting us learn from a CD! Now when I substitute I see iPads in the younger classrooms with educational apps, all the way up to the high school being used to many things.  This is where I believe that I am not following the popular opinion of supporting this technology in the classrooms.  The type of lessons that my CDs gave, in my opinion, are completely different than the kind that iPads can give.  A CD must follow a specific pattern, games, lessons, ect and it cannot be deviated from that.  The schools, however, are dependent on "blocks" and passwords to keep the student body from going off task and doing thinks that they should not be doing.  However, many people that I know, that are younger than me, can break those blocks and passwords with little to no effort.  Unfortunately, it does upset me to see this kind of technology in the schools now.
As my mom mentioned in her blog, my sophomore year of high school I was required to do a project for our summer reading in my AP English class.  I got the idea to make Myspace (yes, this was back in the days of myspace) pages for each of the main characters in the 2 required books and have them interact with each other.  However, I ran into a huge roadblock when I went to present it to the class only to find out that I couldn't get to them because Myspace was blocked from the schools internet.  I ended up going to the principal to explain my project, give him the website addresses, and having to get permission to have them unblocked.  While at the time I felt like I was jumping through a million hoops just to present my project, I feel like if I was to give the presentation now I wouldn't be meeting quite as many blocks.  The schools have become more relaxed with their technology rules, and I feel that my project would be met with a softer eye now that technology has forced it's way into the classroom.
I believe that the online classroom will become more popular and the students like me who are all online, will be the ones giving others the strange looks when they say their classes meet in a lecture hall.  Technology in the classroom has come so far in my lifetime, and I can only anticipate that it will go further.