So far my experience with technology used in the classrooms are power points, research homework, microsoft written essays, on-line educational games, and on-line testings. This only replaced poster boards, libraries, hand written essays, and paper and pen testing. Are we using the gift of technology effectively? Well, applying technology to its minimal use does not certainly harm anything, right?
Picture this, a Hispanic child transfered to your 2nd grade classroom . This child speaks very limited English and you notice that this child does not understand your instructions. Therefore, she has a hard time in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. What would you do?
This is what I saw when I was interning. A teacher puts this individaul to a computer to play a game that helps her identify sight words. Then she sits for math. Then the teacher prints out a Spanish written worksheet from the internet for science and social study. The other time the student has the ESOL teacher pulls her out of her class. Due to individualizing this students study, he/she experience minimal interaction from the teacher and from her classmates.
With help from technology this teacher found a way to teach this child without ever really teaching.
By the way, I thought this cooperating teacher was a great teacher. I am not writing this post to critisize this particular teacher. The reason why I'm posting this is to hear from different teacher how could this situation have been different.
How would technology help individualizing without isolating?
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