- I went to The Walker School's website and found a First Grade class page. In the page you could see articles about presentations, celebrations, and changes being made to the classroom. The teachers also posted a lot of photos so it felt like you were actually involved. I imagine this is very nice for parents and helps them feel like they actually know what is going on in the child's school life.
For my professional responsibilities as a teacher I would use Microsoft Word to create news letters and a class blog to increase parent, student, and teacher communication. I think I will be moderately involved with technology in my classroom. Word and Excel are really what I need to accomplish my activity tasks, but I like the idea of a blog to inform parents about my classroom. I also like that the blog allows students to interact. I think younger students especially need to develop social and literacy skills from an early stage in their academic career.
In the technology sandbox we tried a new piece of technology called the Apple pencil. Writing notes on an iPad has always seemed harder than writing notes on paper because the pens usually don't work well. However, the Apple pencil is probably the nicest iPad tool I have ever used. It was smooth and it made note-taking fun. I think this could be used as an excellent resource in a classroom. In a math class for example a math teacher could project her or her iPad on the screen for students to see and use the pen as they write their notes. Then the teacher could save the notes on the iPad and put them on a class blog for students to have access to. This would help students because they will be doing math at the same time as their teacher, but they will also have the teacher's notes to help them at home.
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