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Changing Classrooms

 It is said in many forums that technology is changing today's classroom. The look and the curriculum are both looking different as the last few years have caused sudden and unprecedented change. Is there a right or wrong role to allow technology in the classroom or should it even be there?  We have been pushed into the technology classrooms as Covid hit and all of a sudden teachers have to know how to teach from one of many classroom platforms on the internet. Classrooms may use Google classrooms, Canvas, Schoology or something like them in order to teach. I know some hybrid classrooms just use Zoom or Google meets to make the learning live and the scholars would send in their work to the office or use one of the many platforms to submit their work. As things improved, some classrooms had both students online and in the classroom with them. Teachers have used videos and slides to help teach their concepts or made videos of themselves so the children can store the information ...

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Isn't It Crazy

Isn't it crazy that after having to go online for the first scare of the Covid Pandemic some of us are still teaching in classrooms with little technology? Many years ago, in North Carolina, I did long term substituting in a nice little "Leave It To Beaver " kind of neighborhood. I was working at good schools where many people had grown up together and now their kids are growing up together. There were computers, tablets, a computer lab, a computer section in the library for research as well as a library in general. Each classroom had a Smart Board bought by the school district or the PTO. Now this was over 10 years ago so maybe things have changed, but I imagine for the better. As a long term substitute, I was shown how to add the Smart Board information to my computer so I could create lessons from home, to use at school. I took a class so I could stay up with technology. I taught online in Europe, before the Pandemic was a thing. So, I am a little sad, after the things...