Week 10

The most important thing that I learned from watching the videos for this week was that there are things that teachers can use in a classroom that aren't too advanced for the students. In the Spiders video, the teacher had the children take pictures using a disposable camera and then scanned them into the computer herself to post on the class website. Allowing the kids to take the pictures allows them to use technology in a hands on way without being too complex for them. In the Brown Bear video, the teacher had the students draw pictures of things that are used for transportation on the computer. She said that they could use the computer pretty well. I still have a hard time believing that it really was that easy for them to draw things on the computer, but she said that they did alright. The last video used the most complex technologies but the teacher also used technologies that were not too advanced for the third graders. She had them use Kidsperation, a CD database, online sources for pictures, and KidPix. I did notice that during this video she was always right by them to teach them new things about the computer. The kids in general seemed to be able to handle using all of the technologies though. I guess that from these three videos, it made me see that not all technology is too hard for kids to use.