Blog Post #6

I visited the website for Walled Lake Northern High School in Commerce, MI. This school is for grades 9-12. Each teacher has their own website which include links to helpful websites and videos, classroom notes to print off, and upcoming dates and assignments. The websites also include a little bit about the teacher and contact information. Most pages also include a calendar and information about the course or courses the teacher teaches. All the information posted is useful for parents and students to keep up on assignments and know what is going on in class. http://wlcsd.org/schools/high-school/northern-hs/

I think technology is very beneficial to accomplish professional responsibilities in the classroom. If I was going to be a teacher I would probably teach science. With new technology, I think science can be totally revamped. With virtual reality students would be able to completely submerge themselves in different environments and learn about different habitats and ecosystems. Also with 3D pens and printers people would be able to print or draw things that they could actually manipulate and look at up close. All these new technologies would really improve the learning environment and allow students to be more involved in the learning.  I also think that with the internet, there are so many options to what students can do and see. Google maps can allow students to see places all over the world and classroom websites can allow students and parents to stay up to date on assignments and classroom news.

I really enjoyed going to the tech sandbox. My favorite technology there was the 3D pens. I think these pens could be used for many different things in the classroom. For example, when studying DNA, it may be easier for students to understand if they could actually draw the DNA strand and be able to look at and manipulate it. I also think the virtual reality software would be very useful for the classroom. Especially for an environment unit, students would be able to emerge themselves in the environment and really understand how a species lives in it or how the environment is important.