Thursday, July 21, 2011

Computer courses

This is my first class in the cohort and boy am I having a learning curve!  I am SO used to PAPER! Paper assignments, paper sylabus, etc.  I am keep forgetting to hit that little plus sign in the content! ugh! I was reading an article on November Learning ... yes I know a little late... I love the article titled Drill the Teachers Educate the Kids.  When we have an inservice on technology... oh boy.... on of two things happen. Our school buys expensive data software ... sit us in front of the computer .... give us fake kids to analyze then... well.... hmmmm...thankfully never saw those programs again.... Then when we got software for the students to use during the inservice it wouldn't work and again we couldn't put our own kids in! I did force myself to have my kids use it but not as much as they should.  It took another 3 hour very boring inservice of waiting around for tech guys to figure out problems.  Things that should have been ironed out before we got there.  It also would have been so beneficial to have some kids there for at least some of the inservice like the article had suggested to use the program and see how it worked from their perspective.
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  1. RHardyJuly 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    Be happy that you are taking this course at the beginning of the masters program. I sure wish I would of, instead it is my last class. I see all the ways I could of used what I know now with all the other courses I had. You have that advantage.
    As for technology in schools I feel your frustrations. The technology at the school where I am at was very limited and that was when it worked. There was also the problem of inservices on technology, or the lack of them. There is also the problem that there are 2 tech guys for the whole district. I will be at a brand new building this year and I am anxious to see how it goes with technology.

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  2. rlt7257July 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    I agree with RHardy, it is going to be so nice to have these tools at my disposal during the rest of my masters program...this is only my third class

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