End of the Fall 2023 Semester
End of the Fall 2023 Semester My takeaway from this practicum is that integrating educational technology into the classroom isn't as hard as I initially thought it was! For the majority of my practicum, I was able to integrate tech into math, science, and ELA. Students truly enjoyed these experiences, and I did too! I learned that tech is not "scary" (I am not very literate when it comes to using it) and as long as I was confident in myself, it generally worked out! Similarly, I learned that tech can be used as a tool for differentiation. Within my class, many students used tech for Google Translate, speech-to-text, and more! Prior to this practicum, I hadn't viewed educational tech in this sense as I didn't have students who needed it in for those reasons! I was able to answer my burning question on my own. Going into teaching grade 5, I was worried that students may have trouble differentiating between academic and personal uses of the internet....