Week 13 Reflection

This last week of field experience was very interesting. My partner and I switched teachers with another partner and taught their class our unit while the other partnership taught the class we were assigned to. It was fun because this classroom was a technology integrated classroom where there was a computer for every two students. We used the computers in our lessons on day one and two. For day one we used the dictionaries on the computers to look up new vocabulary words. For day two we were able to show our power point on each computer so the students would be able to see all of the slides up close and get the information off of it for their worksheet they were filling out when they viewed the power point. I would hope that one day each classroom will be able to have the same set up as this classroom. They were all new, nice computers and they weren't being used all the time but they were there for them to use. In order for the teacher to have this set up, she had to go to school for 2 more years with 4 hours a day spent in the classroom. It would be a dream to have this set up but the funding for school in Utah is being cut so much that there aren't even librarians. I think that so much money is being spent trying to fix the wrong thing when the real problems can be fixed by teaching the children the right things so this doesn't happen again.