Right now the main class that I am observing is digging into the novel Brave New World. For those of you who are not familiar with the book, it is about a very, very futuristic and technologically advanced society that encounters several "difficulties." While students have not done a lot of independent work that would allow them to use technology themselves, I think that the book itself has been really eye opening for them as to how far-reaching technology could become.
another class I look in on is the Newspaper class. The library has several Mac laptops that students can check out and use (with wireless internet on campus everywhere) and students make use of these almost every day. They save photos and article drafts, edit eachother's work using Track Changes on Word, and email back and forth constantly. It is really cool that they have those available to them.
One other class I get to watch is an IB English class. The teacher is very into technology and uses things like an Elmo and a projector and oftec a cd player or ipod almost every day. That is how he transmits homework assignments or collective reading assignments to the class for everyone to see.
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I'm excited to see your project tonight. I've always been a bit anti-myspace (what can I say? I'm definately not a technology native) so I am excited to see how you have used it in a classroom friendly way.
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