Change In The Classroom

There are several changes I can make in my classroom to reach my 21st Century learners. As I reflect on my current practices, while I do utilize my SmartBoard and try to incorporate interactive lessons, my students are still mostly doing everything in my class on paper. Although, I am at a disadvantage right now because I do not have daily access to computers, I can try harder to borrow them from the other teachers and check out the library on a regular basis. Next year, we hope to have every student receive a laptop for use at school and at home, which will allow me to utilize more technology in my classroom. There are two major things that I would change with my current teaching practices.
The first thing I would change is my methods for note-taking. There are some …show more content…
Normally, I have a class discussion about what my students already know, with technology and these websites, we can put a visual to our discussion. First I can see what percentage of my students are familiar with the topic by giving them a few question to answer (via Quizlet or other website) and then we can brainstorm what we know about the topic using websites such as Padlet, PollEverywhere, or Visuwords. After we take the notes, I could also have some volunteer to upload their notes to our class website for absent students to access. The second thing I would change is how my students do their homework. Right now, students do their homework in a notebook using a hard copy textbook or the online textbook. What is great about our current program is that I can assign