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Hi! I am an undergraduate Education major, and I am currently enrolled in a Technology Foundations class. For this class, we were asked to complete a technology inventory for the schools where we are conducting our practicum teaching. After discovering the technology resources that are available at my school and for my school district, I had a few questions. My science practicum teacher uses the BrainPop website to begin many of her science lessons. It seems like a good resource and the videos a… Continue

Hi! I am majoring in Elementary Education, and I have been conducting my practicum teaching in a fifth grade classroom this semester. During one of my visits, my students used Inspiration to create diagrams about animals that are found in the sea. They were able to inbed links to photos of the animals and used the internet to find out facts about the animals that they had been studying in class. It seemed like a wonderful way to incorporate technology into the lesson. Today in my Technology Foun… Continue

I know that most of the blogs have been focused on Voicethreads and the incorporation of technology in the classroom, but I want to switch topics just a bit and talk about special education and how to effectively teach students that are at all different learning levels. My practicum cooperating teacher and I have been speaking about this concern during my past few visits. My cooperating teacher has multiple students in his classroom that are defined as special needs students. While there are aid… Continue

Hi! I just posted a blog about homework in the classroom, but I actually have another topic that I would like to discuss: Testing! I have been completing my practicum teaching for only a few weeks now, but I have already observed my students taking a math test. My cooperating teacher allows the students to use a folder that defines math concepts that they are learning throughout the year to assist them during all of their tests. I thought that this take on testing is not a very common one. I can… Continue

Hi! I am an undergraduate student completing my practicum teaching this semester. I just wanted to start a conversation about the role of homework in today's classrooms. I talked with my cooperating teacher about his use of homework in the classroom, and he actually uses it very minimally. I can remember being bombarded with math problems and other homework assignments, even in the upper grades of elementary school. My cooperating teacher takes a different approach on this idea of homework. Inst… Continue