Well, here I am in my student teaching classroom! I will be working with Mr. Morgan at Wayne Memorial High School teaching Chemistry. So far, there is little "technology" being used in this classroom - we are sticking to tried and true overhead projector, chalkboard and the teacher does have a computer (mostly being used outside of classtime for attendance, email, etc.). I will also be observing in a 9th grade Science class with Mr. Simon. In this class, they did go to the library today so that students could se the internet to find science related articles. Every week, the 9th graders in his class will be turning in a SAR (Science Article Review) from some media source - in the future they will be doing this on their own time (not in class). I am counting this as my #1 observation of "Technology in Education". Hopefully more will be following!
I must say that this SMAC one-to-one laptop is the greatest! I am already an Apple fan (although not too skillful) and love my new camera (see photo of my classroom here)! I hope to use these little "gifts" for recording my records of practice.
We have also been using them well to develop our 504 Social Networking presentation (which will be awesome by the way!). One of the more interesting sources of information is the Nation School Board Assn. report on Internet use by students. It will be very interesting to see where the "offical" debate and guidelines (or legislation?) for internet use and Social Networking move during my upcoming teaching career.
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Lynne
I'm sorry I missed your presentation. I heard rumors that it went really well. Hopefully I will be able to see some video of all the hard work!
Have you made any decisions on whether you would use social networking in your own teaching?
Hey Lynne,
Just wanted to let you know that I thought your presentation was great last week. I, too, am curious where all this talk about social networking will go in the upcoming years.
I don't think I have ever commented on your post before. It was neat to see pictures of your boys. They look like they will be a couple of future studs!
Hi Lynne,
I'm discovering that most of the classes that I'm observing are fairly low tech as well. I am also loving the one-to-one pilot!!~~~ The data from the National School Board Assn. on Internet usage was great!!!
Hey Lynne,
Our presentation did go very well, didn't it? I was just writing to Bre that my classroom is not "Technology Central". Like your mentor teacher, my mentor typically uses the board or the overhead projector. I sometimes wonder to myself if our teachers' choices is a generational thing - maybe they weren't introduced to anything else when they were at college, if the choice is laziness on their part, or if there is truly nothing better available to them....I guess we'll find out as the school year goes on, huh?
Lynne where is your eighties prom picture!!!! I have to see this.
My mentor doesn't use technology either but she engages her students through demos and including them in the lecture.
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