Ideas for using technology in the classroom

First week in the practicum....ahhh! Ok, not, it has been great, and I was shocked that our teacher has a document viewer in her classroom (and a projector) but she had to pay for a lot of these things out of pocket as well. But the classroom is definitely not in the "dark ages". I'm looking forward to working in this class, and I've already seen the teacher put technology to use with things like teaching cursive writing on the document viewer, etc.

Here are some ideas we discussed in IP&T class this week for teaching with technology:

Shared writing

Teacher and student share ideas, collaborate and negotiate writing, the teacher writes. Depending on the purpose this is a small or whole class depending on the lesson.

Ideas for using technology: Document viewer, projector, Microsoft word, smart board (to write what they tell you to), search the internet for details about topic or shared writing idea, watch a video clip as a class, have them write about it.

Shared reading

Text needs to be shared (be able to see the words), teacher reads first, students follow along.

Ideas for using technology: Elmo, digital storytelling could introduce the book and you can replay it again and again, PowerPoint’s, promethium board,

Reading Aloud

Book that is on a higher level than kids would read on their own, teaches fluency and motivates them to enjoy literature and aid in comprehension.

Ideas for using technology: Google earth tour of where the author is from, websites that talk about books, storyboard for the author or concept you’re teaching, digital recording of them reading (let students guess which emotions are being evoked)

Interactive Writing

Student and teacher write together.

Ideas for using technology: Smart board

Guided reading

Everyone has a copy of text, do a picture walk, make predictions, mumble read

Ideas for using technology: Power point with highlighted phonemes etc. or what the focus for that day is,

Reader’s workshop

To increase fluency and prosily, increase understanding of a text, improves self-efficacy in reading.

Make a video of their final performance, use video clip to shows examples of actors performing, or displaying different emotions.

Writer’s workshop

Use a blog for journal entries by different students.