What happened yesterday in the classroom got me to think that technology is definitely needed to make things go smoothly. I normally have a 30-min. prep time prior to the first class(the upper Phonics). As We've already done comprehension of the phonics reading, I had to come up with a better idea of how to stretch time for class. In the reading, the kids read a very short story about how the lost pup got back to his owner and there was the line saying 'I wish I could find my pup'. So I decided to use the sentence phrase to make the students write about their wish pet puppy, such as 'I wish I could have (dog breeds)'. But I had to teach them many types of dogs so that they could choose from them and match their chosen kind to its appearance. For about 10 minutes left, I got to google many dog breeds and their pictures and did a multiple cut and paste on EXCEL to make flash cards. Unfortunately the time was too short to finish cutting out the cards, leaving me to make it done in class. At that time I thought, 'What if I brought my i-pad and just searched and showed them pics real time?' This had me learn that just using technology could prevent a hassle.
2. What challenges do you think using technology presents in the classrooms? Have you experienced any?
At my previous workplace(hagwon), I used the application called 'CLASSCARD', which is a free program that allows any teachers to input and upload data for word tests, making it possible to convert the data to certain formats that help students with word memorizing, like priming. But this work of putting vocabularies into the site burdened not only teachers including myself but also the children, because they had been so used to studying words by just looking over and every time I checked who did and didn't, it felt like just giving students another extra work to do that they never want.
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