Last Week of Field

What?
This is our last week of field. I have loved field so so much. The kids have been so awesome, the teaching has been so fun, and such a good learning experience, and I really feel like I have learned a lot. It has been so interesting to see the technology that we have in the classroom, or lack thereof.

So What?
The lessons where we have attempted to use technology have kind of been a struggle because of the lack of accessibility to these tools. For example we had a lesson that we had planned to use a video from online. There were quite a few bumps in the road that we had to figure out first though. First our laptops would connect to the internet so we had to use the teachers computer and try to unplug it and reconnect to the projector. YouTube wouldn't pull up so we had to use it form another website. There is more than that as well but those are the most memorable. I feel like when we finally did get the video up that the kids really enjoyed it and learned a lot from it, but if it was just me in the classroom it would be hard to motivate myself to go through the trouble of showing the movie.

Now What?
This has not only shown me some cools that can be done with technology but also how annoying it can be for technology to not be readily accessible. I think technology can be such a key attention getter for the kids be they connect so well with it, but I would definitely check with my technology specialist to make it easy to access for me and my class.

No video today!