Technology Lesson Plans

I put all of my lesson plans on Google Docs. Here are the links:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_6dcd6q487
math

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_5dzdhr8cg
language arts

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_46t5nfhgm
science

3 Videos Response

After watching the videos of I Love Spiders, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and Habitats I think that one of the most important things that I learned from them about using technology to teach young children is that children love using technology. As a teacher I will always be working to get the students engaged in what I am trying to teach them and I think that using technology is a great way to do that. The students will be more likely to pay attention to a lesson that they are engaged in and excited about the way that they are excited about using technology. Having the students engaged like this would help them to pay attention and since they would be paying attention more they would be learning more. I think that any way to get students to internalize more and take more out of your lesson would be a great asset to use when teaching.

Technology at Riverview Elementary

It seems to me that there are a lot of different resources as far as technology readily available to the teachers at the school that I am doing my practicum in. As I was finding out what was available and what the teachers had access to I had so many ideas about different things that I could do for different lessons with each of the items of technology available. The thing that surprised me most was that as I was talking with some of the teachers about what the different technologies are that are available to them many of them said that they had never used any of it and that they mostly just taught is different ways. I am really excited to use all of these different technologies as I am teaching some of the lessons this month.

I completed the mid-course evaluation and the informed consent questionnaires