Edith Bowen Technology

We visited a classroom at Edith Bowen that defines what we have been learning in class throughout this semester. The teacher briefed us on all the technology he uses in his classroom, and the whole time I was thinking how easy it must make his teaching. It was exciting to see the ways he used technology in his curriculum. His curriculum was full of technology almost everything the students do in class involves technology in one form or another. The teacher told us how he had worked hard for grant money in order to buy a digital camera. Just recently he was able to acquired an ipod for each student in his class through a private donor. He has found affordable ways of getting movies and books to download onto his student's ipods. He has computer programs for math, spelling, science and more. He finds them to be much more engaging than textbooks. The teacher finds technology to be greatly helpful in providing small group and individual instruction time, as students can rotate on and off the 13 computers their class has to use. I was able to pair to pair up with a student and he showed me the technology throughout their classroom. It amazed how much he knew about computers and easily he could complete assignments instead of using pen and paper. His and the teacher's enthusiasm for technology made me even more excited to try it out in my classroom.