Blog Post #6

I really enjoyed getting to visit Tech Sandbox last week. I learned that there's a lot of different technology that's used in education that I didn't know existed. There were these tools that worked like headbands that read your brain activity. There was also a counting board that looked really fun, but I didn't get the chance to use it while we were there. Apparently, a lot of these tools are used for athletes to test their reaction time, and that was a really cool concept to me. I don't know if there are any of these that I would use in my future classroom since I want to teach kindergarten, but they're still really neat tools.


One standard that includes technology is SC.8.CO.1.2 - Create a collaborative project utilizing an online digital application. This just means that students are able to use digital tools like PowerPoint, Canva, or other collaborative apps to make a project. I definitely feel prepared to implement this standard based on my current skill set. For all of my high school, I used Canva to create posts for my school's Yearbook and Link Crew accounts. I have become very skilled with using Canva, so I'm confident in my abilities to use it for collaborative work.


I definitely think these resources can be used in my teaching. CPALMS is a great source to see what standards need to be met in each grade, starting even at Pre-K. I'd love to be a kindergarten teacher, but it's hard to know exactly what that entails now, especially with how much the education system has evolved since I started school. Using CPALMS would help give me an idea of what students are expected to learn while they're in my class, and that would make it easier to create lesson plans and make activities.

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