Monday, February 18, 2008
Blog of My Choice 01
Okay, I know this blog is late....so apologies for that. The Friday I went into a classroom at Effie Kokrine to do my fieldwork. The seventh grade class was learning about airplanes and aviation. The classroom has a SMART board. During the class that I observed, the teacher actually had a flight instructor come in and hook up a flight simulator so the kids could practice flying 'in action'. I thought this went along with what we are doing in class right now---how to use technology tools to teach. The kids all got to try the flight simulator and they learned about all of the dials on the airplane, how to take off, and how to chart a heading. Of course, all of the boys in the class were mainly interested in crashing the plane. Nonetheless, they still walked away with some hands on knowledge that they might not have had without the assistance of technology. Kudos to the teacher!
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That is awesome! I would love to have seen it. I was at Effie last spring and I learned a lot. It is just a different atmosphere. Which teacher are you with? I didn't know that Effie had a smart board. I wonder if it is new? Do you know?
I'm also curious about the number of SMART boards at EK. Is there just one, or do they have one in each classroom?
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