Practicum Week 1

The technology most readily available to my teacher is the six computers in her classroom. She actually used them the first day I was there to give math pre-tests to her higher level students. I was surprised by this because she is an older woman, and stereotype says that she would be adverse to computers. She doesn't have to instruct about computers because they go to a specialty class once a week in the computer lab. I don't believe that she uses technology other than that. She lets the children play math and reading games on the computers, but I don't think she uses them instructionally.
Several classes combined to watch a movie on fire safety yesterday afternoon. This was a good use of the particular kind of technology, but it is shared with the entire school, and would probably be difficult to use consistently.

I finished both the midcourse evaluation and the consent form.