Week 3- current classroom differrences

How different is your current classroom from the one in which you learned when you were a student?

It is amazing to think about how much classrooms have changed from 100 years ago, when I was in school, and to think about how much it will changed when my sons starts school in a year. So many of the aspects that have changed are the access to technology. This can be something as simple as computers but I think it is important to think about things that go deeper. When I was in elementary schools there were no computers in the entire building. In middle school I remember look something up for a English class I remember going to the library. I took notes on a piece of paper and write them down to cut out and put on a poster board. To me this was normal, I didn't know anything different. I am not sure if the lack of technology at my school was normal or if it was because I went to school at a small school on an island in Alaska. 

In high school I vividly remember being in  middle school and sitting in a basement room in middle school and having typing classes on huge computers. I remember that typing program we used was awful and had a terrible lag. At the time I had no idea that having a class on a computer was something that was unusual. I think that was one of the last times that Blatchley Middle School had typing classes. It seems like now most children come into school knowing how to type because they are exposed and familiar to keyboards from a young age.

Social Studies class and the teacher being one of the first ones to have a Promethean Board in her room. She was one of 3 other teachers piloting a new program that brought technology into the classroom this was in 2007. It doesn't seem like that was too long ago but it is amazing how much technology has changed and been fully integrated into classrooms. 

Thomas, D., & Brown, J. (2011). A New Culture of Learning. Douglas Thomas and John Brown.