“When I went to school, computers were put in a room called The Lab,” Bellow said. “‘What are they experimenting with in there, I thought.’ Technology wasn’t built into what we were doing. It was farmed off in a room, like it was special.
I have been opposed to "labs" for most of my career, other than curriculum labs where they are used every day for a class such as keyboarding.
Teachers used to send their students to the computer lab, and then have them come back to their room where they would teach them math, reading, social studies, science the old fashioned way.
I love having computers in my classroom this year. It is part of my classroom culture and can be spontaneous for learning. It was so frustrating to have to plan around using a lab.
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This is a great differentiation book. I was very lucky to have heard the author, Cindy Middendorf, in Minot last year at the kindergarten conference. She is an amazing, upbeat presenter.
We refer to them as "clickers" or classroom response systems. Minot Public Schools use SMART Response units.
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when a teacher was trained to use the technology, had used it for two years, and did so 75 percent of the time. That profile shows a whopping 29 percentile gain in scores.
he warns that there is such a thing as too much technology
you clearly "can't take the human being out of teaching."
David Thornburg states "any teacher who could be replaced by a computer should be." What do you think of this statement?
To get the most out of the interactive whiteboard, a school district can't just give it to a teacher, and can't just give it to any teacher. The district has to train that teacher. And Marzano was quick to point out that weaker teachers require professional development in the use of both interactive whiteboards and effective teaching.