Learniong Log

Today in class we discussed Web-Quest. I am excited in a way to create a Web-Quest. Its not what I expected it to be. I thought it was a big old thing that would take forever to create and I had to know all this stuff in order to do it. But actually you can do a Web-Quest with anything. My group choice to do one for Kindergarten and we are going to be doing it with sight words and illustrating them. I am really excited to work with my group I have never worked with some of them and they seem to have good ideas. I could use Web-Quest in my class in so many different ways. I am actually excited to create Web-Quest for my students to do. I think that it will be a good way to keep them engaged in the material. It is also a fun and creative way to get students excited about learning.

Reflection on Technology Interview

What did I learn?
I learned that technology is not used as much as it should be used. The computer teacher didn't even know anything about computers, she was just a regular education major. which means that if I wanted to I could go and be the computer teacher at a school, which to me is very scary, because I know nothing about technology. The teacher taught three things in the whole year. She taught typing, Internet safety, and a web-quest on a science topic. Technology in the classroom is not used as much as it should be. Our cooperating teacher thought that using a microphone was technology enriched.
How will the experience affect me as a teacher?
This experience has opened my eyes. I need to incorporate technology in my class, because the computer teacher could have just as much experience as I have.
How did this change your opinion on technology?
I think that it is very hard to incorporate technology if you do not know that much about it. I will have to try really hard to incorporate technology in my classroom, but I think that it is needed.

Learning Log

This was our last week in the classroom. On Tuesday we did our technology interview and I found the results very interesting. The computer teaching has no special training whatsoever. She has a degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in math. I found that completely astonishing I didn't know that a school would hire someone like that to be their computer teacher. She was also their IT technician. She was a very nice person, but I felt like she really didn't know what she was talking about. I would ask a question and she would be like "I don't really know" or "I think so". I feel like schools are not using technology as much as they could. First of all i computers they only learn three things a year. They learn typing, Internet safety, and have a web quest on a science topic. The teacher whose classroom I was in thinks that integrating technology is using a microphone while giving instructions. I just think that technology is being overlooked way too much.

Learning Log

Today Morgan taught our technology lesson. I think that it went rather well. It was really fun, because she did a PowerPoint and projected it onto the smart board and it was really cause she just had to touch the board and it would switch slides for her it was rather convenient. She also did an activity called freeze frame and it was cool. She had the students act out one aspect of Jamestown or Plymouth then they had to freeze and she took a picture with her digital camera. She is going to get them developed and put them on a poster for everyone to see. I thought it was an awesome idea and the students really enjoyed the activity.

Learning log

Today was my third day of my field work. It is going really good. Technology is used a lot in the classroom that I am located at. She uses a Smart board almost everyday. It was really cool, the other say she was talking about the election and writing on the smart board and it was amazing all the cool things that she could do with it. She also projects pictures or websites up on the smart board all the time. Today in class we watched a movie on the smart board. I wish that when I was in elementary school we had a smart board. She also uses a microphone when she is giving instructions. I like this a lot, because I think it helps for all students to hear but it also helps the teacher so she does not have to yell over everyone. Me and Morgan asked our teacher if she ever takes her class to the computer lab and she said that is just to much of a hassle and the students get frustrated with the equipment. I thought that it was interesting that she would say that. I feel like her students are missing out on a lot of opportunities to make their work more enhanced.