Essay about Using Smartboards to Support Literacy

You walk into most public-school classrooms and you see laptops, I pads, Desktops and sometimes smart boards. These are used as learning tools. When using these tools, the kids really are learning with a hands-on approach. For some kids, it’s a helpful tool for other kids it’s a distraction. The students can use technology for school work at home and it also helps with the Turing in process with teachers. I think that technology can be useful in a classroom setting but should not replace the classroom

There are currently eighteen out of twenty-four classrooms that contain a SMART Board at Iola High School. For almost every teacher and student that is a part of this high school, using a SMART Board is just part of their everyday lives. There are countless nights that the author goes home to discuss to her parents the activities that were done on the SMART Board that day. One night however, the mother mentioned that she did not even know what a SMART Board looked like or what it did. She discussed that she was used to chalkboards and the projector that the teacher would sit at and wrote notes on a certain kind of transparent paper. She mentioned how much of a transformation it was to that and she couldn’t even imagine the huge transformation

The board will be placed in a central location and be available for all students to see, along with the continued decorations around the classroom. Although the bulletin board will the the focus point on that wall, the decorations (characters, book jackets) will surround the area.

From my very first observation I could tell that technology played a huge role in Ms. Felder-Way’s classroom. She found ways to integrate technology into almost every lesson. All of the students were assigned Chromebooks which were purchased by the district. In the classroom there was a SMART Board, two desktop

The students are more engaged when we use the SMART board. They participate more and pay closer attention to the lesson because they want to go up to the SMART board. Even though we had technical difficulties and quite a bit of chatting, the students still appeared to be engaged in the lesson. I had the students discuss in their groups the word that matched the definition. The students groups are made up of mixed abilities.

The teacher had the students all come up to the front of the room then one by one had them take turns going up to the smartboard to create a two-digit number using their fingers to move and create ones, tens and hundreds with the blocks. Once they got the answer right the children would pick another person to go until every student participated and answered a question on the smartboard. The teacher also showed examples up on the smartboard for the students to all see. If the students made a mistake the teacher was able to fix the problem on the smart board by using her laptop at her desk. Ways that technology added to the lesson: It got students more involved and engaged with the lesson. It also broke down the hard lesson for the students to understand. It also made the lesson fun and appealed to the students visually and got the students hands-on learning. The students also have their own individual assigned iPads. Every day they have “PI time” in which they all log on to the iPads and grab headphones, and go on to the educational app called imagine learning to work on their language arts

integrated into the rooms to give the children an early introduction to computer technology. They also provide opportunities for hands-on activities, which is a great way for children of all ages to get in touch with the world around them. For example, in the one year old’s wing the teachers use the boards for music and sometime the Oklahoma City Zoo’s animal cameras where the teachers teach about the different types of zoo animals. But some parents have regards with SMART boards being used in their child’s room. For example, in the one year old rooms parents sometimes do not want their children being introduced to technology at that early of an age. Which is not a good idea at this time, technology is used everywhere and it is better to learn early on in life.

In the twenty first century, technology is advancing every day, there is always something new that is being made or an old device is modified. One can find technology everywhere, his house, a grocery store, at work, and even in schools. Technology is beginning to play a major role in student engagement because students are being exposed to all sorts of new technology. For example, when one walks into a classroom he will not longer see a chalk board, he will find that educators now teach from a Smartboard, which is a board that is connected to the computer and it reflects whatever it is the teacher has on the computer. The Smartboard is just one of many examples of innovation in the classroom setting. Educators are continuing to look for new ways of teaching that involve technology and will help improve students’ engagement.

Education is ever-changing and students need to be confident, creative, connected and active lifelong learners. Digital technologies are very important to our student’s world as they use them to connect with each other, learn new skills and pursue their interest. Luckey (2009) stated “For students in particular, technology is almost an extension of themselves. They use it to communicate, to discover the world, to play games, to collaborate, to create things, to write, to read, and to organize their lives. Nothing can be more foreign to them than school without technology or where technology is relegated to its own special place.” Mobile devices with the power of digital technology are being placed in every student’s hand in schools around the world which equips them with the personal technology needed to learn and communicate in the 21st century. While these programs can be very effective for students, they can be challenging for schools. Some educators believe that digital technology in the classroom may cause more of a distraction to students; however integrating digital technology in the classroom helps students become more engaged. In the digital world, data is at students’ fingertips 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Technology is everywhere and many students have adopted practices

As a student, I think that if lessons were like these we probably wouldn't even want to look at our phone. Although, that is my opinion. Personally i think that these lessons are different and engaging unlike some digital lessons on the smartboard at school. And in a final way as to why having face to face ongoing lessons are better, they actually help us more. And as shown They help us more with coordination and skills we will need. One student Finn Heilig from this Silicon VAlley school tells about how he actually also prefers paper and pencil lesson, ‘Finn Heilig, 10, whose father works at google, says he liked learning with pen and paper - rather than on a computer - because he he could monitor his progress over the years” . And personally I really agree with this because in my class a lot of tools are digital, not only are our writing lessons, but its seem to start that math and reading had become really digital too now. And if we t0ok away technology we could value these skills more. And that is why I think that we really should not lift the cell phone

Technology has truly taken over the classroom many schools now have SMART Boards, Chromebook laptops, iPads and Teacher Websites to refer to. As of July 2017, there are 57 percent of teachers who often use interactive whiteboards for instruction. Mrs. A said almost every classroom has a SMART Board and desktop computer for teachers. The school is still in the process of updating SMART Boards to make sure they are using the most current technology. Starting this year, every grade has a form a personal technology that they can keep until they graduate Elementary School. Kindergarten through third grade get to keep an iPad and the fourth and fifth-grade students get their own chrome book. What I found fascinating is that the students get to keep these chrome books or iPads in their desk and are held accountable for it. Once they graduate Elementary School they will most likely receive another Chrome book or iPad to keep throughout middle school. To accommodate students who do not have technology at home, some students are able to take these chrome books home and complete on academic work.

Improving education has always been a widespread concern in the US. As a country we are always looking to improve education. Technology is proven to help children learn much quicker, even up to 80 percent quicker. When the teacher is the only source in the room it is hard for every student to get exactly what they need to fully comprehend what they are being taught . Technology can provide tutorials, diagrams, and an abundance of information. At Northdale Middle school, special needs students showed greater focus and increased learning ability through the use of technology. (Blanca, “iPads improve special

As a teacher candidate, the SMART board activity that was designed would be implemented as end of the lesson as a review for the students of the kindergarten on weather vocabulary words and learning the skill of using context clues to infer meaning of words. The SMART board activity reviewed the weather vocabulary learned in their lesson, as well as how to use contextual clues, and allows the teacher candidate to assess whether or not her students have full comprehension of the lesson taught to them. The activities in the SMART board are designed to promote critical thinking, problem solving, and require some collaboration of the students to work together on an activity. When designing the SMART board activity, the teacher candidate thought

For example, students who learn better by listening can understand more fully with audio and videos shown on the board. (Bell ) For visual learners, students can watch as the lesson develops across the board. Research has shown that students of all ages respond well to interactive white boards. With everyone loving the boards so much, students will jump at every chance to use the board. Interactive Whiteboards make kids want to learn. It makes them more willing to listen and focus on the lesson. Fifty years ago, classrooms didn’t have this kind of technology. Classrooms only had black boards or white boards. (Bell )

The use of technology in schools has a great effect on not only students, but teachers as well. Today, we mostly think of technology as computers, but it is much more than that. In fact, one of the first technologies used in the classroom was the chalkboard.