Technology Observation

Rocky Mountain Elementary has a good amount of technology in their school. In the first grade the teachers share a projector for three classrooms. One first grade classroom has a cluster of computers in the back of the classroom that the students use every day as centers. There are microphones in each classroom hooked up to speakers in the class for the teachers to use. These were very helpful in making it so the teachers voice was heard. Students could also read stories they wrote in the microphone which was exciting to them and encouraged their desire to read in front of the class. There was a TV and a CD player that also hooked into the central speaker system of the classroom. This setup really helped with multiple kinds of lessons, especially literacy lessons. The students went to ‘computers’ twice a week. In the first grade technology was not used as much as I think it could be used in the older grades. More of a focus is placed on reading books and writing. The ‘elmo’ was used so the class could work together on a math assignment. At least two of the teachers have purchased little digital camcorders where they can download clips of events that happened during the year and make a video at the end of the year too.