Reflection

Our cooperating teacher never uses the laptop lab in their school. He has a personal amplification system. I don't know what they are called, it's like a mike that hangs around his neck. He plays DVDs through his laptop to the giant TV in his classroom. He communicates through e-mail with us and with parents. We had the laptop lab in his classroom preparing for our lesson. we couldn't find the word processor on the student laptop. The laptops are Apples and my partner and I have only ever used PC. So the teacher called one of the students over to show us how to use it. :)

It's sometimes frustrating that no matter how much time you spend testing your technology and trying to plan for every contingency, something is bound to go wrong and the technology will keep you troubleshooting rather than teaching. Or it will get left in the dust for paper and pencil even though you spent most of your planning time trying to placate your technology. Well such is the time we teach in........You can't live with out it and living with it brings you Ulcers. :)