placement 1- week 4

During the entire placement, the Grade 6's only went to the library to use the computers twice. One time was to type up a poem they had been working on another was to browse for information relating to a particular person (Marilyn Bell). For this task, students stayed on task all of the time because they were able to browse many websites to find the most interesting facts about this person. I was quite shocked that there isn't more time given to students to type work up or just browse online for information.
Students have been working on a theme song and everyday until the Christmas concert our class went through the song. This week they added in the music video related to the song while we sang. This was played on laptop and played on the white screen that every classroom has. This was nice for the students because it got them more involved and willing to sing along with the song.
For my last lesson, which was Science, I was able to incorporate music from a laptop. The class worked on an activity to understand the size of an atom so I played the theme song from the Addams Family. This worked nicely because the laptop was set up in the middle of the classroom so all of the students could hear the song. They really enjoyed this.
Overall, I was very pleased with the amount of technology use the students experimented with during the 4 weeks I was at the school. The students seemed to be well advanced in their use of technology. Many times, students were setting up the laptop, Smartboard or overhead for me.