Technology in the classroom
This will rock your world if you know even just a teeny tiny bit about computers. My teacher has Apple IIes in her classroom. Not just one but 4. The kids play games on the computers which they actually enjoy and get the job done but it is seriously shocking. I hadn't seen one of those in years. I mean even in less wealthy districts...we are in Bellevue, dahling. Anyway they are old and ugly and use those enormous floppy disks that you sometimes have to flip over but the kids love number munchers so I guess that is all that matters.
All the classrooms at this school have Smartboards hung up in the classroom. The only problem is that most...maybe none of these rooms have the projector mounted. Now in a classroom with 3rd or 4th graders that is no big deal but in the Kindergarten classroom it makes the projecter almost useless. One of the other teachers has a big tape circle so that the kids will try and avoid it because the slightest bump meanse that they will need to reorient the projector and the board. She has done some really cool things with it but my teacher is waiting until it is mounted. I don't blame her.
Bellevue does a lot of cool stuff with their curriculum on line and have a sharepoint calendar to let the staff share information and keep track of events as a group. This seems good.
All the classrooms at this school have Smartboards hung up in the classroom. The only problem is that most...maybe none of these rooms have the projector mounted. Now in a classroom with 3rd or 4th graders that is no big deal but in the Kindergarten classroom it makes the projecter almost useless. One of the other teachers has a big tape circle so that the kids will try and avoid it because the slightest bump meanse that they will need to reorient the projector and the board. She has done some really cool things with it but my teacher is waiting until it is mounted. I don't blame her.
Bellevue does a lot of cool stuff with their curriculum on line and have a sharepoint calendar to let the staff share information and keep track of events as a group. This seems good.
posted by Makaela at 11:36 PM
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Wow... I mean... wow... I used one I think in middle-school almost 20 years ago...
Do the kids seem to use techs outside of the classroom? I mean like cell phones and stuff?
I don't really know about that but I bet that they at least play some video games. Lots of their parents are Microsofties so they probably know more about the stuff then some kids.
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