Clinical Field Experience D

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Clinical Field Experience D: The Cultural Effect on Technology on a school Campus Danielle Hudnall Grand Canyon University- EAD 513 Danny Williams May 1, 2024

Reflection: Technology is one of the main ways our school uses for communication between staff, school leadership, and school families. School stakeholders are made aware of different events that are happening at the school through different forms of virtual communication from email to SeeSaw messenger. There are monthly newsletters that goes out to families that informs them as to what each grade level is working on in all the curriculum areas for that month as well. On the SeeSaw app teachers will post any communication that Is going home to students in paper form to ensure that if a parent doesn’t receive the paper notice there is a virtual version that they can look at to get all information. In addition to the classroom SeeSaw accounts, there is also a schoolwide Facebook that updates are posted on including pictures from various school events that happen throughout the school year for families to see. While doing my walkthroughs of how technology is being integrated into the curriculum, I found that most classrooms were using the technology we have available in the same way. In our school all classrooms in grades 2 nd -6 th students are one-to-one with laptops, while grades Pre-k- 1 st have iPads in the classrooms put the students are not one-to-one. In the lower grade levels it appeared that the tablets were being used in more of a center rotation manor during small group/ independent time. The students in these classrooms were using the tablets to go on their learning applications, such as iReady, Lexia, or imagine learning depending on their academic level. While both the ELA and math curriculums that our school uses have an online component to them, it did not appear that these parts were being used in the lower grade levels. All classrooms have some form of document camera that teachers use to project ether readings that are being completed, work that the class is doing whole group, or show models of students work throughout lessons.

In the intermediate grades the classrooms are all equipped with a Promethium board in addition to their document camera. As I was completing my walkthroughs, I saw the boards being used in different ways. One classroom was displaying a reading text and then the teacher was able to make annotations on the text right on the board for the students to see. In a math classroom, the teacher had an interactive Jeopardy review game going on in which students were able to go up and select categories on to show them their question. Another teacher had up a form of name selector that would select a student name at random to contribute to the reading that the class was doing for the day. All of the different activates had students engaged more so than just having a paper in front of them and doing book work. In addition to the Promethium boards the students all have their laptops. Students in reading classes use their laptop in very much the same way that the primary classrooms do with the students going on learning apps based off their academic levels during small group time. In math classes the students have an exit ticket daily that is built into their online curriculum that students have to complete daily in addition to their iReady lessons. I have seen at various points of the year, that ELA teachers will use the online version of the curriculum to assign different readings to students so that they can work through lessons independently throughout the year. While we do have a very technology rich school with access to more technology than many schools have, I do not think that all teachers are using the technology to its fullest potential throughout the year. With all of our district supplied curriculums have some sort of online/ virtual component I don’t think that many teachers have even began to scratch the surface of all the possibilities there are on the virtual platform.

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ISTE- Education Leaders Standards and Implications for Future Practice: According to ISTE “These standards will deepen your practice, promote collaboration with peers, challenge you to rethink traditional approaches and help you prepare students to drive their own learning,” (ISTE, 2024). In taking what I have read in ISTE, discussions with my mentor, and what I observed through my walkthroughs I feel the best way to help the staff at the school to integrate more technology would be to host professional developments that target the various different technologies and virtual curriculum options that we have available to us. During these PD sessions teachers would have opportunities to collaborate with their team members but also staff members from different grade levels to see how others may be using technology in their classrooms. I would also like to bring in someone who has a lot of training with the Promethium boards to show teachers all of the various functions that they can be used for, we have only had them for a year with very little training, so that teachers are really able to understand how we can use them to the full potential as well as having students use them to enhance their learning. My hope is through these collaborations is that teachers will be able to become more comfortable in using all of the technology resources that we have available to us which should in turn increase student achievement throughout the year.

References Education Leaders . ISTE. (2024). https://iste.org/standards/education-leaders

Clinical Field Experience D

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