Times are changin' fast at Learwood Middle School. Teachers are incorporating technology into a lot of their assignments this quarter. One of the biggest reasons is because of the STEM grant we received from the state. However, just because we have computers and this technology, it doesn't mean our students are interacting with technology every day. For example, each of our math teachers received 25 new computers in their classroom. Without thinking, our technology department BOLTED them to the desks so that students would not steal them. This created a problems, because teachers had to change the setup of their rooms. In addition, the computers were not set up with the proper software, therefore students were not able to download and upload documents like usual. As a result, lessons were complete headaches for teachers.
In addition, I would like to say that I will be incorporating Google Docs into my Eighth grade Language Arts classroom after learning about all the features it has this summer. I teach both reading and writing to special education and regular education students. This has been difficult because our "thin client" computers freeze when the students are on the same website, so our students are "stuck" and can't peer edit each other's papers.
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