Technology In Classroom...

My practicum experience is at Mt. Loafer Elementary in Salem, Utah. Being that this is a newer school built within the past ten years I thought that these classrooms would have a lot more access to technology, but there are still a lot of great technologies in this school. I am in the first grade and they don't use computers as often and they have a lot more rote instruction. They have technology such as an Elmo document projector and cameras that are shared as a grade level. All the classrooms have TVs, cd players, DVD players and at least one PC computer. There are two computer labs. One has newer computers and this is used to teach computer once a week to each class in the school. The other lab has older PC computers and it is open access. The computers have access to the internet and many educational programs. I think that at least in my classroom we could be using technology a lot more to make connections with the curriculum, especially since we do have a wide variety of access there at the school.

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