Digital Cameras- I would definitely pick to use digital cameras in my classroom. I love to take pictures and with a digital camera you can upload pictures to a computer for a lot of different subjects. Cameras also can take videos. This will be very helpful if you want to record a class play or something outside of school to show your class. Also, cameras can be used for newsletter photos, web sites, documenting a science experiment, and simply for taking pictures of children working.
Electronic Whiteboards- I always find these very helpful in classrooms that I have been in and also when I was in high school. I would love to have this in my classroom! It is a great way to do group work and teach a lesson to the whole class. An electronic whiteboard also hooks up to a computer, therefore you can pull up the internet and it saves everything you write on the board.
Speakers and Headphones- Speakers and headphones would be a must. We just discussed students with disabilities being able to listen to books. Headphones make it a lot easier to have that option available. Also, speakers are needed if you want to show videos or if students are working together on a computer and need to hear.
Those are the only three that I thought were necessary to have. A camera, a whiteboard, and speakers and headphones are three things I think will be very helpful to a classroom. Classrooms don't need to be all technology. There has to be time for students to get creative and express themselves without the use of technology.
I think that all of those are great choices to be placed in a classroom, it keeps the child interested as well as pushing the teachers to come up with new and creative ways to incoporate them, I think it is a great experience for students because it allows them to get hands on experience and learn things on their own, at the same time being assisted when they need help. It allows for teachers to convey concepts in new ways and increases the students learning, no child is left behind because even those with disabilities can participate in activities with the rest of the classroom with these digital technologies
ReplyDeleteWhen reading your post I said ,"duh!" to myself when you said speakers and headphones. I didn't even think of those as being 'technology' because I am just so used to them being around in today's classrooms, but that is a very good point! I also like that you don't believe that classrooms need to be full of technology. In today's world, most people are full of wanting everything to do with technology but I like that you want to actually challenge your students to think outside of the box, not just depend on technology!
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