A Change in Classroom Style

Nowadays if we do not find a way to integrate our lives with the use of computers we become obsolete and boring in the eyes of our children.  Unfortunately, the educational system still relies mostly on printed press.  Therefore, it is up to us, teachers, to integrate our children´s reality with our learning processes.

I have decided to introduce the use of computers and portable devices in our class.  If the students are allowed I asked them to bring their own devices to school on Wednesdays, if not they will use the school´s netbook.  Ideally, they´d have their own for them to take advantage of the familiarity of its use.

This week we have started a pilot project with the school computers.  Everyone is blogging simultaneously about four different topics:

-          Our Class From The Beginning Until Now

-          Has My English Improved?  I Will Tell You Why…

-          “Back To The Future” and Benjamin Franklin

-          Our A-Z Learning Book This Week