Recently, I took a look at a video on Edutopia called, "Meet a Virtual Principal: How to Lead from a Distance." This video is a great link which shows a number of middle and high school students at work on their individual computers. I found it very amazing to watch the kids busily working on the internet and talking to their professors over head-sets hooked up to their computers. I guess I have always just really wanted to see the technology at work in the classroom and I was shown a snipet of what that would be like. The children are all sitting at separate work stations on this video and do not appear to have much contact with the people around them. It is just astounding to think that they are getting the same education that we offer in a regular classroom filled with many chattering students and varying ideas. Does it really work? Is it just as effective? Has anyone else had any glimpses into a fully functioning technological classroom? I'm so intrigued, and I would like to see more!
My room is run like this. Students log on, put on their headsets and go through their own personal course work. Like any other class, some love it, some think it's ok, and others hate it. They work pretty independently, but are pretty chatty in the first few minutes of class and the last few minutes. I don't mind though because they work hard on it the rest of the time.
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