Wow! The elementary school that I went to while I was growing up did not include near as much technology in the classroom as Spring Creek! Spring Creek has a Promethean Board in every classroom. A Promethean Board is connected to a computer and everything on the computer screen is projected on the board and then can be manipulated on the board using a special pen. The technology specialist for our school provided an informational meeting for all of us cohort students (along with a few teachers) on how to use the Promethean Board and create flipcharts that go with it.
Another thing that amazed me was how much computers are used in the classrooms. The school has multiple carts of laptops that can be checked out by teachers for use by their students. I have not observed the students in my class using the laptops, but my students use the seven classroom computers regularly during centers. They often play math games on the computers or work on a phonics program called Headsprout. The teacher tracks the levels the students reach on Headsprout and reports the progress to the students through a graph displayed on the Promethean Board. Wow! Kids know much more about technology these days than I do! I feel really old! Now I can really use the phrase..."Well back in my day we didn't have..."
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