Technology In School Interview

On November 24th, 2016 I interviewed my cousin. Her name is Olivia, and she attends Eagleville Elementary School. She is ten years old and is in the fifth grade at Eagleville Elementary.

I asked her the question, why do you want to use technology for learning? At first her response was a little vague. She responded, I do not know. Once I was given that response, I asked her how are you using technology in your classes now? She then went on to explain that she has been using her cell phone to record video during one of her elective classes. She explained that she was to make a time lapse video. She created paper people, paper car, and paper locations. She did her video over her vacation she had in Chattanooga with her family. She would move the paper people and paper locations, and she would record the movement little by little. She made the video look like the paper people we going to different locations. The project was really neat, and she was very proud of her project. She said she loved using her cell phone in class, and she loved that her teacher let her use her cell phone in class. Once everyone completed the project, each student showed their video through the computer.

She then went on to say that her school has iPads and laptops that are shared through out the school. The equipment can come to the classrooms upon the teacher's request. Olivia said she loves when he iPads come to her classroom and she gets to use them. She has a tablet of her own at home, and she knows how to work the iPads. After her response of she did not know, it seemed to me any kind of learning that involves technology is was excited about.

After hearing her excitement about using technology in the classroom, it made me really want to include as much technology as I can in my future classroom. Whatever technology is available at the time, I would want to use it in my classroom. My ideal technology in the classroom is computers are available for each student. If not computers, I would love to have iPads for each student. I would want to use to the latest educational apps. There are so many apps out that could be utilized in the classroom. I feel like using different apps could help the students academically. The apps could be used to help aide in teaching lessons and digitally assess students. I would want to incorporate technology in my lessons as much as I can.