My mother's classroom

At the beginning of the semester I mentioned that my mother would be using podcasts in her classroom of special ed. students. At the time my mother and I did not think this would actually happen because her students struggle to even write their names on paper every day. Well, it turns out that we were wrong.

As of Friday, March 9th, my mother was trained how to use a podcast in her classroom. The training will continue for the rest of this week as well. Although my mom was excited to learn how to use some form of technology in her classroom (and in general!) she unfortunatly does not see herself pressing her students to use this tool. The reason for this is that my mother has eleven students in her class and the room is extremly small. "It would be a ligistic nightmare."

Although my mom does not see her students being able to use this tool now, hopefully in the future her students will be able to use it.

Also, from the blessing of grant money, all eleven students in my mothers classroom will have their own laptops. They are scheduled to arrive this week and the students will spend 2 periods a day learning how to use their laptops. All students from grades 3-5 will also have their own laptop.

It's amazing that I thought not every school would be able to afford having laptops for each student. Turns out that my doubts are occuring up the block from my house!!