In last weeks class Billy showed us a program that his district uses called castle learning, it is amazing! It is a program that allows you to create different class list and then either makes assignments or let you create assignments for each student. I think it is fabulous because it allows the teacher to build on each student’s level or skill instead of giving one blanket assignment or quiz. You can make deadlines for the assignments and then the program will let you see when the student completed the task and their grade. Along with grading the assignments the program will also let the teacher see what the student answered wrong and on what level the question was given.
I also watched Christine give a presentation on how her school is trying to go paperless, which I think is amazing, but unrealistic in my school. All of her students have laptops given to them by the school and most of the assignments are done on the computer and sent threw the computers to a drop box on the teachers computer. While she was showing us her daily routine she stopped and showed us a do now but it was in English and Chinese. Christine then went on to explain that she had a student who just moved here from china and he couldn’t understand anything. He seemed home sick and probably didn’t feel like a member of the class because of the language barrier. Then Christine went to google translator and tested a few translations out. The student took to the translations and was now participating in the class more because he knew what was going on. This story was so heart warming and it put a smile on my face.
It was very interesting to see how other schools do things as compared to the one I work for. The mini presentations really help spread the use of technology from teacher to teacher but then also school district to school district. It only takes one person to plant the seed in a district and many things may bloom from it.
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