Saturday, November 29, 2014
Post number 2
Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your Thanksgiving break. I cant believe we are approaching our last week of field experience. I have truly been having an amazing experience and have been learning a ton. One major thing that I have noticed within Kennedy Elementary is that their internet is super slow. When I say slow, I mean it takes 5-10 minutes for a single page to load. This is causing many students to fall behind as they wait for their pages to load. It is very important to include things such as tumble books where the students have a book read to them online, but it is not possible because of the delay. Mrs. Wilger continues to use the smart board and I have seen more students interact with it as my time here continues. I have been able to do a few lessons and a few read alouds and also work very closely with small reading groups.
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I can also relate to slow internet connections. There was a video that my CT tried showing the class on three different days. It finally loaded on the third day, so they were able to watch it, but that showed the importance of having backup plans!
ReplyDeleteI have also noticed issues with computer speeds at my elementary school. My class spends half an hour a week in a computer lab to work on math, but I feel as though a quarter of this time is spent just getting to the websites! Most of the time wasted is simply waiting for the initial browser to open.
ReplyDeleteMy cooperating teacher regularly uses the interactive whiteboard and Notebook, but the internet, and other forms of technology are rarely presented. Other than a kitchen timer. We use a kitchen timer daily. I suspect more forms of technology aren't used in my classroom due to the large amount of time that can be lost to "loading!"
My elementary school has almost no service and very slow wifi. It is causing problems for computer lab days because it takes so long to load the websites that students practice their ABC's and numbers. Does you CT use the interactive whiteboard for most of the lessons? My CT uses her board most parts of every lesson. I think this new technology is great in classrooms because it allows more participation for students in their learning.
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