Posted by Laura Bernardi at Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:29:04 PM EDT
My school, ugh, is not really addressing the technology parts of the common core. The district knows that they need to update technology, and they are doing so at the high school level, but my school seems to be the ugly step child of the district. We do not even have wifi yet. There are rumors that next year we will have wifi and LCD projectors, but I'll believe it when I see it. Though these awesome things seem to be coming down the pike, we have not had any GOOD technology professional development since I've begun working here, (5 years ago).
We have two ipad carts, and three computer labs for teacher/student use, but the labs have now been warded off due to the SBAC testing, and the same few teachers rotate the ipad carts each week. Most teachers in the building still teach with traditional methods.
Because I teach English, I think that technology could easily be integrated on a daily basis! It is frustrating to me that my access is so limited. :( If I had my way, I'd want students blogging on the books they're reading, communicating with each other and with me. I'd want them creating bulletin boards via Pinterest and Glogster, and I'd want my students to share their written work via the cloud, rather than in paper form. If they each had an iPad or mobile device, we could do research on non-fiction articles and be able to discuss current trends that are appropriate to what we are learning. We could download music/lyrics and analyze them according to their rhyme scheme or theme. With more technology, I would be able to be more creative and it would just be easier to have access to more information on the internet. All of these things would help my students to be better prepared for the 21st Century, the one piece of the CCSS that my bosses seem to forget about, and the one piece that I deem most important. I'm frustrated. It's frustrating. Ugh.
In regards to resources about the CCSS, I mostly follow http://learnzillion.com/common_core/ela/8
This site is amazing. It lines up everything I need to do in my classroom, for my age group, in regards to the CCSS. Cindy, you may find the Math piece helpful as well! :)
For those who have Blackboard, the link is: http://bb.usj.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/viewBlog?course_id=_7854_1&blog_id=_1548_1&blog_course_user_id=_201942_1&&group_id=&gml_reload=&callBackUrl=#entry_4911_1
My school, ugh, is not really addressing the technology parts of the common core. The district knows that they need to update technology, and they are doing so at the high school level, but my school seems to be the ugly step child of the district. We do not even have wifi yet. There are rumors that next year we will have wifi and LCD projectors, but I'll believe it when I see it. Though these awesome things seem to be coming down the pike, we have not had any GOOD technology professional development since I've begun working here, (5 years ago).
We have two ipad carts, and three computer labs for teacher/student use, but the labs have now been warded off due to the SBAC testing, and the same few teachers rotate the ipad carts each week. Most teachers in the building still teach with traditional methods.
Because I teach English, I think that technology could easily be integrated on a daily basis! It is frustrating to me that my access is so limited. :( If I had my way, I'd want students blogging on the books they're reading, communicating with each other and with me. I'd want them creating bulletin boards via Pinterest and Glogster, and I'd want my students to share their written work via the cloud, rather than in paper form. If they each had an iPad or mobile device, we could do research on non-fiction articles and be able to discuss current trends that are appropriate to what we are learning. We could download music/lyrics and analyze them according to their rhyme scheme or theme. With more technology, I would be able to be more creative and it would just be easier to have access to more information on the internet. All of these things would help my students to be better prepared for the 21st Century, the one piece of the CCSS that my bosses seem to forget about, and the one piece that I deem most important. I'm frustrated. It's frustrating. Ugh.
In regards to resources about the CCSS, I mostly follow http://learnzillion.com/common_core/ela/8
This site is amazing. It lines up everything I need to do in my classroom, for my age group, in regards to the CCSS. Cindy, you may find the Math piece helpful as well! :)
For those who have Blackboard, the link is: http://bb.usj.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/viewBlog?course_id=_7854_1&blog_id=_1548_1&blog_course_user_id=_201942_1&&group_id=&gml_reload=&callBackUrl=#entry_4911_1