Blog Post # 11

This week's topic for blog was posting was pretty exciting for me. We have been given opportunities to speak to children almost every week and this week we are all meeting the same classroom and same teacher. This was great and so much fun to see a first hand account of what a teacher who uses technology in the classroom is actually thinking. Miss. Cassidy and her first grade class are such a great inspiration for future teachers. She is so positive and understands that technology and classroom are certainly beginning to integrate more and more each year. She is doing so much to help her students make it and understand technology better. She has her young students doing so much more than I ever could when I was their age, heck they are doing more than I could even do last semester! I think it is fantastic that she is doing all these things; my favorite thing that she does is the video games. Honestly I have always hated video games but I can't seem to go anywhere without seeing a child on a video game device of some sort. As an educator she has turned video games into a way for those children actually take away some knowledge from playing on them. She says in the Skype video that we watch, that as teachers we should "do it for what we are interested in," talking about the ways to relate to the students when teaching. She gives different examples of tools to teach with and I think that is great! We need to be ready to jump in feet first with technology in the classroom. She also says that technology is here and only going to get bigger in the classrooms and she couldn't be more correct. There is no reason to shut it out; she said that some of her colleagues didn't necessarily want to change the way they taught and felt what she was doing wasn't the best way. She is great and I loved watching and hearing of what her students could do, those children have bright futures ahead of them and thanks to Miss. Cassidy they won't be afraid of technology as they get older. Those kids have already had some amazing opportunities and their horizons have been broadened by learning to work with technology at such an early age!