I think that one idea I have for a technology assignment is to introduce the hard to undestand vocabulary in my shared reading book to the students using a PowerPoint presentation with the words and the pictures.

The shared reading is about an aquarium so I think I will take some of the different animals in the aquarium to talk about what they are before we read teh book, so things like Minnows and Guppies and Snappers. The only really way you can describe these on a surface level (just so they can understand what is going on in the context of the book) is to give them a visual image, It also helps if they can see the words that they are learning so they can identify them when they come a crossed them in the reading.

Classroom inventory

While doing the Classroom Inventory I was able to learn that the teachers in the school have the access to a bunch of technology that is not used as much as I thought it would be. I learned that most of the technology in the classroom is basic, but when the students go to computer lab there are many programs and games that they can use.

I also learned that a lot of lessons don't need technology. I'm in first grade and there are lots of things that they could use technology but i don't think that it actually improves their learning. I think that there are still lessons that can be improved with technology but I realized that less lessons then I expected are improved by technology.

Underground Railroad

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