computer placement in classrooms
... Having the computers in the classroom would mean that the teachers would need to be trained on how to use the computers and how to incorporate them into the classrooms but that could be done at an inservice. The children will get so much more out of a computer in the classroom. Even if there is only one computer two children can work on it at a time and rotate throughout the class. ... Children could also work on projects with the computer in the class. Of course it may take longer to have a whole class complete a computer assignment but they will be learning a lot as they work with the computer. ... If I didn’t have the permission from the publisher, I would instead adapt my unit without the computer program or work on a completely different unit. ... Now with today’s technology a stock broker could put his entire client base into a computer database. ... Today there are phones in most classrooms where as before there were not phones in classes. ... I could see children having their own lap top computer built into their desks. ... Their assignments for the day would be on their computer. Of course every computer would be hooked up to the Internet for students to access information for research. There would no longer be books in the classrooms. All the books that the kids would need to read would be accessible through the computer. ... They would have their computer hooked up to a digital projector thus giving the teacher the ability to teach using power point presentations, going through a hyperstudio project, and playing interactive games with the students through the computers. Classrooms would also have more advanced and upgraded software programs for the students to use. ... Another advancement that I see in the classrooms are phones that are accessible to off campus with memory dial. ... The students need to learn how to access information from various locations on the computer. ... You need to know how to navigate your way through the computer before teaching students how to do it. As a teacher you will need to be computer literate and be use to accessing information via Internet. ... During the students free time they could go to the computer and go through the stack of cards.