Well to be completely honest, my classroom does not use technology hardly at all. Like I said in my survey, the only computer in the classroom is the teachers laptop and that is not accessible to the students. My teacher does use a CD player everyday. She uses it to call the students over to the rug for literacy or math lessons. She also uses it to sing with the students. They sing songs about the days of the week and months of the year. The students really like doing this and they even have little hand motions that they do with the songs. She also uses it to teach the students new songs and the kids really like this. When they come back from art, the teacher turns off the lights and they are just to listen to the music or they can sing to it. I really like they way my teacher uses the CD player because the kids think they are just having fun, but she is really teaching many things just through music. I really have not seen any negative use of technology in her classroom, mainly because it is basically never used. One way that I have used technology in the classroom, talking about the CD player, is when I played a book on tape for the kids while they looked at the pictures in a book I was holding. This was really fun for me because all I did was hold the book and the tape read it for me and I also go to see the expressions on the kids faces while they listened.
The only idea I have for using technology in the classroom in a lesson that has been taught this week has been using the newer form of an overhead projector when doing a read aloud or explaining something from a worksheet. I am not sure what these things are called but I have seen them used in my classes at BYU and they are very useful tools. I actually plan on using one in a lesson I have been thinking of because the school has one available for teachers to check out. But other than than, because the students are so young, I do not really have any other ideas than that.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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