Chapter 4

Chapter 4

            Four starts off talking about all the concerns and complications that come with using technology in the classroom. It discusses everything that is frustrating about it. Then it talks about how the teachers adopted new technology and were able to problem solve for themselves. It helped teachers to keep children from cheating or illegally downloading material and learning to trouble shoot their technical problems. Lastly, the chapter goes over how teachers have adapted or embraced it and used it to their advantage in the classroom such as IEPs, grades, and spreadsheets.

            Teaching a younger grade I can totally relate to all the frustrations at the beginning of the chapter. When my students started school they didn’t know how to turn a computer on or off. They can barely type in their names and passcodes. This is truly frustrating because a helper or I have to go around and help them type in their usernames and passwords. Then when you are done helping with that you have to show them how to double click on the Internet icon to get to the educational games. It is one of the most frustrating forty-five minutes of my week. I don’t really have to deal with my students cheating or illegally downloading anything. They are too young to understand any of that. The computer does become a distraction in my class when one child is on it working .The others want to hoover around them and watch. For example, one of my students is ELL so the ELL teacher wants her to work on a special computer program for a certain amount of time a day. When she does this the other students think it is unfair she gets to play on the computer everyday and they don’t. They then all stand behind her and try to watch. This becomes extremely annoying when you are trying to get the rest of your class to do their work. If they were older and could understand why she has to use the computer it would be easier, but because we are young the computer becomes an annoying distraction.