One-On-One

I just got back from a bilingual conference that was held in Anchorage Sheraton. Most of the presenters in the conference were mostly presenting about how teachers can use technology in their classrooms and the presenters let the teachers and/or the people who were presenting the conference that their students might know more about technology than they do.

I have been to classrooms where every student had a laptop. This was at Effie Kokrine Charter school last semester. Students were doing science online but they had a worksheet on-hand to do the assignment instead of how the students in the video reviews were working on their whole assignments and communicating with their teacher through the internet.

I like how every information the students are learning are updated and current. Even I who was in school 8-9 years ago was learning stuff from the textbooks and not the internet.

Creating presentations using technology and still being a highschool or even an elementary student is so awesome. Cause that is not what I was doing. I would very much enjoy doing this as a student and a teacher. This would prepare the students for college especially the students in Rural Alaska.

There was many concerns that were addressed in the video review that I seen and I have wrote a little about some of them. I know that certain sites are blocked through the school system to keep students away from them. And the technology workers will know what the students are doing whether it is good or bad.

Then the chatting was one concern that I was worried about but the students are communicating with each others through technology and not disturbing the class and at the same time they are working on their assignments.

Each laptop will have a number and a student will be assigned to what number laptop he/she has.

And students will have school accounts and a password to get into the computers.

During the bilingual conference one of the presenters and one of the members that were in the conference said that they download some stuff like their Native Language words/numbers/saying into the students' ipod and that is how they are learning their native language.