Week 2 Assignments

ELA instruction is a lot more complicated than I expected it to be. There are many components that students and teachers must engage in. Depending on the grade level taught, teachers have to make sure that they students are able to work together and understand the materials that they are given. Teachers must make sure that students are able to properly write, and expand a students vocabulary.

One technology piece that I think would work is prezi. It's interactive for the students to it engages them. I like how they can write out what they would want to say to the class and then read straight from the presentation.

I spoke with Mr. O'Brien about the challenges that he faces integrating technology into his high school English classes. He said that the main problem is that the SMARTboard doesn't always work, and it's frustrating because it has taken over the blackboard leaving him no where to write the work down when this happens.  He basically uses the SMARTboard as projector and is still trying to find better uses for it.