Observing a Technology Class

Today, after I talked to the technology teacher at my school, I observed her teaching a class to kindergarteners. It was really fun to watch them, and also really impressive how adept they were at using the technology. They used a program called Brain Pop to learn about rhyming. Brain Pop looks like a really useful program, and the teacher gave us the login for the school, so I plan on looking around at it to see how I can use it in the future.

The kids could use the program to watch a video and take a quiz about rhyming words. If they held the mouse over the question, the computer read it out loud to them. It was kind of funny to see all the five-year olds in their headsets with microphones. Afterwords, each of the kids had to use Brain Pop to draw a picture of a word that rhymes with sail. Then they could print it out and take it with them. I was really just impressed in general with the amount of technology at Matoaka. I remember the huge old computers at my elementary school, and they were a far cry from all of the things available to these kids. It seems like the teachers are still getting used to it, and there are still some bugs with things like broadcasting the morning announcements, but I think when they get it all together it should be really impressive.