EDUC Blog 3

The assigned reading for this week was very interesting. I agree with the importance of including technology within the classroom as an additional method of making both the learning and the teaching process much more successful. Until this article I had really only considered technology as a greater advantage for students, (with them growing up using technology and expecting to be using it in school). Though it is also a major advantage for teachers. The article referred to the use of technology in a "multi-aged" classroom. I am currently working in a classroom with a fifth grade teacher who has had her students now for the second time. (She had taught a fourth/fifith combination class last year and now is teaching those fourth graders who are now fifth graders.) I was unsure if I agreed with the use of combination classes until speaking with her. The students in her class have a better relationship with both the teacher and their fellow peers in the sense that they have had the opportunity to spend more time together. Therefore a stronger relationship is developed as well as creating a more comfortable environment where the student feels more at ease to ask questions or speak with the teacher with more personal issues.