Technology in elementary schools

Some things I learned during field:

Many schools have a lot of Apples or Macs because that company gives computers to schools to encourage parents to buy the same. I was lost on the mac and had to ask a student to guide me....Might want to learn some things about macs.

There are codes and unwritten rules in schools that pertain to computer and lab use. Our cooperating teacher dosn't use computers in his clasroom (although he has personal technology and his own classroom technology). So he wasn't familliar with the rules and codes at our school. Our first boo-boo was not understanding the procudures for the lap top labs. Each lab has 16-22 lap tops. There were 28 students in our class so we thought we would need both lap top labs. I think this irritated other teachers. And then when we got to actually use the laptops the students told us that they have a lap top number, always use the same laptap, some of them share--So we only needed one lap top lab. The first day we had the laptops our co-operating teacher had arranged for the teachers who had them last to drop them off at his room. One of them was brought to us locked and the other unlocked. When we returned them I couldn't remember which was which so left them both unlocked because I was afraid if I locked the wrong one someone would have forgotten the combo and been irritated with me. Well the teacher who always locks it made a point of locking it when we returned it and the teacher who brought it to us unlocked seemed unconcerned to have it returned the same way. I think our cooperating teacher just decided that generally this is to much to navigate and dosn't use the lap top labs.