Due to my son being sick during prac I had to complete my last two days of prac this week. I was really hoping I could do something techno and fun with my class, but alas this was not going to happen. As much as I liked my teacher and I believe her to be a good teacher, technology did not figure into her day, and not just the days I was there. Unfortunately I did not get to Web 2.0 with my class, I barely got to IWB with them. I know I have written about this before but after a semester of learning about how to incorporate technology into the classroom and making it meaningful I am disappointed that I could not put any of this new knowledge into practice.
I can see how easy it would be for teachers to keep doing things the way they have always done them, but is that really an excuse? My prac teacher said to me on the first day, don't do anything overly exciting as they are a noisy class and anything out of the ordinary just gets them over excited. This flabbergasted me and made me wish for a teacher who said something more like, they are a noisy class but try whatever you like - you never know what they might respond to. How great would that have been?
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