Crown Point Junior Music Academy teacher, Tirza Bennett, has integrated technology in her TK classroom like a pro. She has created many age appropriate strategies to overcome the obstacles that her students encounter when using classroom software and hardware. Her classroom has become a nurturing center that allows students to work on their sense of agency while using technology.
Students were engaged in many different types of activities using technology. They independently used the classroom microphones, they utilized the Promethean board to complete independent work, read out loud using laptops (Chromebooks), graph on Chrome Music Lab, created videos on Flipgrid to describe their science notebook work and review books, as well as watched science, math, language arts, and peer videos. Children in this classroom are proud when they are able to enter site passwords independently, and they are eager to help by showing their peers how to do the same. Many of the children seek a peer’s assistance when they want to learn how to do a task or find a game on the computer.
Ms. Bennett is approximating her use of classroom technology by introducing new resources as she learns about them through the SDEA Workshops and SDUSD’s ITN. These children are digital learners; they are very comfortable with technology and are excited to try out new technology with their teacher.
