In Mrs. Garza’s summer Reading class for preparation for the TAKS students didn’t have much use of technology helping them on their class assignment. The main source of technology but it was used by the instructor to conduct the lesson was the use of the document reader or the ELMO machine. Most of the assignments where placed under the document reader and the students followed along so they could keep up with the teacher; even though, much of the assignments where shown through the document reader she also incorporated the use of online websites to engage the students in the lesson from the beginning. She used online sources and projected them through the projector onto the white board in the front of the class.
Much of the lesson was during the summer so there really wasn’t a setup schedule to introduce students to the use of technology. There were no computers for the students to use during summer school in the room the only one there was was a laptop were the teachers and through that one the students were engaged in the lesson. I don’t think that the use of technology would of made the instruction better for the teacher I believe in some ways technology can affect students in the sense that it distracts them from the course matter; however, if I had to incorporate technology into the classroom I would use the resources of blogging for purposes of helping students on their writing skills. I believe technology is one of the hardest things today that gets in the way of students learning. Many students are constantly online networking sites even on their phones and they loose all focus of the lesson being taught to them.
As my observation went on I realized that the use of technology in Mrs. Garzas class was the perfect amount of technology because in a way it keeps students engagement. There is sufficient amount of visual they can look at besides the book they have in front of them to keep them engage in the lesson.
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