PLE Week 10

In the spider lesson, the teacher uses a video to teach her students about spiders. She also has the students use cameras to take picture of spiders. I watched as the students became engaged during the camera activity. This same teacher also uses internet communications to correspond with people from different states. Technology is the only quick way you would be able to exchange pictures. This is a great way to engage the students. Technology is the only effective way to accomplish this type of task. Technology provides students with experiences that they could not otherwise have. In another classroom they used technology to put together final products. Using the computer to make the finished product allowed the teacher to be able to send the student’s work home in a more exciting way. It gets old sending books and papers home. It is so much more exciting for the students to go home and show their parents something on the computer than a worksheet that they filled out. The computer also allowed the students to be able to easily draw and erase without too much trouble. This can be especially important for younger children. In the last classroom had the students make their own PowerPoint presentations to show to the class. The slideshows gave the students many tools that they could use to demonstrate what they were learning. So many things could not be provided without technology.