Chapter 4 from Sandholtz, Ringstaff and Dwyer

CHAPTER 4: MANAGING A TECHNOLOGY-RICH CLASSROOM

In Sandholtz, Ringstaff and Dwyer

                Chapter 4 goes through the stages mentioned in chapter 3 only the focus is on how the teachers in the ACOT program managed technology in their classrooms. They went from the entry phase where teachers were concerned with students moving around the room and whether the students would be able to format floppy discs, etc to discussing how new ways of cheating surfaced with the technology and then eventually how the teachers learned to take pointers from their students, how they developed their own inventive ways to use the technology. It was fun to read the excerpts from the different teachers and their reflections on how things had changed over time.

                As I read through our assigned readings this time, I continually reflected on my experiences in the classroom. I didn’t utilize technology much and I wish that I had. I wish that I had had innovators around me because I think that I would have jumped on board pretty quickly. I think I spent most of my time just trying to survive day to day that I know I wasn’t open to being an innovator myself; however, I know that had I the resources, I could have done some really neat things.