Reflection Of A Classroom As An Elementary Teacher

Throughout this semester I have learned a great amount of new information that will help me to have a productive and effective classroom as an elementary teacher. From ideas for both teachers and students, I am confident that I have the knowledge to integrate technology into all aspects of my future classroom. Throughout my semester in CI 201, I have been exposed to multiple resources that will be useful throughout my career. In our lab, we have worked with many different apps and website. One of the apps that I feel I will use in my classroom, regardless of age or level I am teaching is the app called Quiver. Quiver is an app that we used in lab during Week 4 of the course. We all came to lab with a "dot" that we were provided with colored …show more content…
This is a topic that we have heard a lot about and gone through multiple scenarios of what is and is not appropriate. Nevertheless, I feel that I have a solid understanding of the allowed lengths of copyrighted information and sources. Before this course, I had no idea that it was illegal to buy a movie and show it to a class because that is what we did in all of my classes growing up. I knew about plagiarism, but the same rules applying to media mad never once crossed my …show more content…
In the online lab, we learned about the resources that can connect us to other teachers. For example, blogs are a resource that can be used by teachers to keep up to date on other classrooms and what activities they are doing day to day. They are also a great outlet to connect parents of students and the teachers of their children. Another resource to find fellow teachers on is Twitter. It is simple to follow another teacher or school district account and see what they have been up to with their students and classroom. As for the Google Drive assignment, we learned how truly simple it is to share a document with other teachers, and to be able to comment on each other 's work without having to edit the actual document. This can be done from any device anywhere, so you do not have to be near someone to share ideas with each other or critic a peer 's work.
In my teaching career, technology will play a huge role. Not so many classrooms are straight out of a textbook like some used to be. Technology is becoming more and more integrated into today 's school systems in all subjects and all grade levels. A technology that I will likely be using in my classroom is Google Drive. When working in groups or pairs on a project or activity, they can collaborate quietly by commenting or using a chat within their document. This would