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 Either you have already or soon you will be going into a local school for your practicum class.  With regard to technology, what do you expect to see?

Hardware: Software: Support: How teachers use technology: How students use technology:

The Digital Disconnect Levin, Arafeh, 2002  Students use the Internet all the time to complete their school work.  Teachers and schools have not acknowledged the new ways that students interact using the Internet.  Students have difficulty using the Internet in school due to poor access, blocking software, and lack of assignments designed to use the Internet.

Peck, Cuban and Kirkpatrick, 2002 Unmet Dreams 1. Ensuring that all students are computer and technology literate. 2. Offering improved educational resources to increase student academic achievement. 3. Changing the nature of education. 4. Providing students with high tech skills to satisfy student, school, and business interests and needs.

 What are your fears about technology integration in your future classroom?

 School and classroom structure.  Time constraints.  Defects in technologies.  Competing educational priorities.  Let’s brainstorm how the fears you talked about fit into these categories teachers in schools talked about.

 School and classroom structure  Time constraints  Defects in technologies  Competing educational priorities

 Record what technology you see.  Record what you might see as barriers to technology.  Record what positive things you see teachers doing.  Find out how the teacher you are observing feels about technology.

Reflect  Look back at your observations.  Think about what technology, barriers, and integration you observed.  Think about how what you observed matched or didn’t match your past experiences as a developing teacher or a student.