Okay, this blog will be kind of a venting one. I am currently enrolled in two technology classes through the Poudre School District. I am taking 23 Things and I am also taking Blackboard and Softchalk. To be honest, I am excited and yet a bit overwhelmed about all the new technology that I am learning about. Over the last four weeks, I have been introduced to so many new applications and ideas about technology that I feel like my head is spinning. The main crux of my problem is how and where to implement all these new things into my already overloaded class room content. We are asked to cover so much material and content that my class time is often scheduled down to the minute. I think that many of the tools that I am learning can be adapted to existing content. It is just going to be require me to plan more and be willing to change. That is not always the easiest thing for a teacher to do, especially when we feel like we have something that really works in our classrooms. I am just going to have to challenge myself to change for the betterment of my students.
Another issue that I keep bumping up against mentally has to do with the access to technology both within my school and on the part of my students. Our labs at FCHS are in constant demand and often we have plan weeks in advance in order to have access to a lab. Again, I am just going to have to be more organized if I am going to start to use these new tools for the educational gain of my students. The second part that has been bothering me, had been the realization that not all of my students have access to technology at home. I believe that this is known as the "Digital Divide." How can I ask students to complete technological assignments when they don't have a computer in their home? That is the reality of several of my students.
Okay, I have vented enough for today. Thanks, Elaine
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