Reflection Week #12

So we're in our field experience! Wahoo! And technology has been a real help in the work my partner and I have been collaborating on. We are using Google Docs for each of our lessons and are both able to work on them and do last minute edits before we print them off the night before the lesson. This has been perfect for our different schedules because instead of meeting at the lab too often, we are able to do our work on our own and collaborate after we've finished our assignments. What I have observed is that technology in the actual classroom is not yet the ideal we talk about in class. Teachers are using technology in the same ways my teachers were (i.e. overheads, and copy machines). We did meet the technology teacher though (and will give more in our technology interview write up) whom our students work with three times a week on a three week rotation, and found that she is doing great things. There is not a lot of subject integration though still because what she is doing has nothing to do with what our cooperating teacher is doing in the classroom. There are not so much strides being taken in technology in the schools, for at least this school, as baby steps. But hey, good place to start!