My Tech Tale

As I read the Tech Tales in the handout, I thought about all the same things they did. Using electric typewriters and writing simple problems that allow you to see something over and over again on the screen. My biggest tech tale though has been through teaching and how technology has changed over the course of the last 10 years. It has all started when I was teaching kindergarten and the students used the computers to play on Reader Rabbit and Math Munchers and it taught and reinforced reading and math that I did in class. Then I taught third grade where they used the computers to type up essays and reports, and to take reading tests for the books they read. This was when I realized that they loved the computers and being on them, so I started to teach them how to make a power point presentation. Because we only had two computers in our classroom at the time, I assigned two students per week to work on their powerpoints during any free time that they might have had and they loved creating them and sharing them (I believe they made power points all about themselves). Then when I moved into fifth grade and had access to the COWS (computers- laptops- on wheels), I began to bring technology into some other lessons...me using powerpoints to teach a lesson, and then creating power points to reinforce lessons. Using it to create word documents, or spreadsheets, have been brought into all other subjects from social studies & current events to publishing essays, and problem solving in math. I love that fact that every year of teaching, I still have the same curriculum, but teach it in so many different ways with the help of the latest technology.