On a daily basis students are exposed to technology, they are not digital immigrants. Some students just lack the maturity and sophistication in regards to technology. Teachers can support and contribute wisdom and guidance to these students through everyday learning and learning about how/when/why to use technology. In chapter 4 it lists the strategies for Single and Multiple Computer Classrooms- how they can be used in a classroom. Computers can be used for information, interaction, presentation, and rotation. All students would be exposed to the computer in their classrooms. As there are less and less classrooms without computers nowadays teachers should be able to incorporate computers into their lessons. I have been observing an Elementary School in the Bronx where the science teacher teaches all her lessons through the smart board and through presentations. The teacher adds video clips and pictures into power points. The students seem to enjoy the lessons more because of all these visual add ons. I've noticed that teachers use and take advantage of one or more electronic devices in their classrooms, which I think is a good thing.
simple educational game site that I think is a good tool
http://www.funbrain.com
1. Do you think all students should have access to a computer altogether at once? or having one computer in a classroom enough?
2. How might teaching change from what a teacher might do if the technology were not present?
Hey Michelle,
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question teaching would definitely change because teachers would only have to rely on tactile materials in order to facilitate a lesson. Students learning styles would not be a preference and those students who are visual or auditory leaners will be not be able to prosper to their full abilities. Teachers would have to go above and beyond to teach each concept because they would be limited to technology. I believe that some teachers will be stuck modeling lessons the same way that it would be hard to differentiate with the students inside of the classroom. Most of all our students with disabilities would suffer because they depend on these technological devices to help them learn.
i think if the students are doing an assignment or classwork that has them working with a computer the teacher should try and reserve the computer lab. therefore the whole class can be experiencing and following the instructions together as a class. if the teacher is just using the computer as a model or example to show the class than i think the one computer/smartboard is enough for the classroom.
ReplyDelete