Spreadsheet video

Today in class we watched a video that showed a real class that was using technology in the classroom. In this particular classroom the teacher was focusing on spreadsheets. The teacher also used other technologies such as her computer to play music and the internet to find out weather information such as average temperature.

The activity she was doing seemed to get the students interested in the weather and climate of their region. However the students seemed rather young to be doing this type of activity. The students in the video seemed to understand everything very well, but I think that that was because she only had 4 students. A weakness of this activity was that if a teacher was trying to do it with a normal size class of 20 or 30 students it would be much harder. Many students would be left behind especially with the young students that she had.

Something in the video that I really thought was a strength was when the teacher had the students fill out the chart about what they wonder and then at the end of the activity had the students answer there own questions. That is a good way to show your students that they are actually learning something. It is also a good way to get feedback from the students about if the lesson worked or not.

Something that I would have added to the project would maybe finding out some of our own data like taking the temperature everyday for a month and putting that into a spread sheet and using that data to help the students understand their climate.