Week 3 Practicum

My teacher refuses to use computers and technology. She does not want to learn new things and says that she does not need them. Trying to use it is very difficult because she hates it so much and has nothing available. We will need to bring our own in or have her let us borrow the laptop the school has given her.

I used the internet to get a clip about frogs. They really enjoyed watching something and were very involved, even though it was choppy due to slow internet. They never get to do anything like that; the tv in the classroom is covered and no one knows it is even there. There are lots of technological possibilities that these kids would benefit from.

Week 3 Practicum

We found out that we can borrow our teacher's computer to connect to the internet.

This will help us at least be able to get some technology in our classroom for our assignments and kids.

Week 2 Practicum

My teacher has yet to use any technology, however when I sat in a music class the teacher used a Smart Board. It was way neat. She even let the kids draw on it too, so she was involving them in the technology. The Smart Boards make the board way more colorful and you can do so much with it. I would love to have my own in my classroom.

When I tried to bring my laptop in to use it in a science lesson I was unable to use it because I couldn't connect to the internet. Next time I need to ask how to connect to the internet there.

Technology could be used for any of the reading lessons to make them more interesting and different. We do the same things with phonics and reading and I think they could benefit from technology. We highlight words in sentences and the kids could do this with a smart board or just a power point or something different.

First Week of Practicum

I did not see any technology in the classroom besides the use of a tape player for music. The class doesn't have any computers, projectors, etc. in it. The office said that a mobile computer lab comes once per week but I did not see it come for my class, it was possible it came when I was not there or not at all. My teacher is older, so that may be the reason for not having technology in the classroom. She does have a record player though ;-)

I will have to bring in my laptop or anything else for use of technology in this classroom. There is a screen thing installed so I can project on that if I bring in a projector or overhead.

I think it would be fun to use technology for literacy through projections of words so all kids can see it.