Blog Post 10

We were asked to watch Ms. Cassidy's 1st Grade Class in Little Kids... Big Potential for this weeks Blog Post 10. This video along with many others that she made showed some great ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. Her videos did a good job at showing that using technology can encourage students to develop social skills instead of isolating them. I think students would love the use of more technology in the classroom because it gives them so many opportunities to learn how to learn on their own to further their own knowledge and show how relative it is to their lives even outside of the classroom. I liked her use of blogs in the classroom because creating your own blog and also following others, such as fellow students or other teachers, can really expand students' world of learning. Another thing she did that I liked was her sending out permission slips for the students to use such technology because i can see where some parents mat not be okay with using so much and having that much access to technology at such a young age. As we have seen so far in ED310 this semester, younger students can have the ability to know much more about some technologies than we do and have very little problems when it comes to learning new types of media. I personally think this is great. At such a young age, these students are getting such a jumpstart on learning how to write, read and communicate with other, which can really help them in their future education and, eventually, careers.