Exit Slip 12/6

We watched a video of a teacher who has transitioned her classroom from a traditional environment to a technology infused environment.  She did not do anything groundbreaking, but put together a nice combination of tools to make her room a more engaging environment for students.

One component was creating an “open classroom.”  She employed tools such as teacher and student blogs as a way to showcase students’ progress.  As a parent, I greatly appreciate good communication from my children’s teachers.  It does me no good to know what they did last week.  It doesn’t allow me to help my children if I find out 2 days after the fact that they did not finish an assignment.  As a teacher with an open classroom, everyone would know everything.  Parents would be able to keep track of what is going on in the class as well as how their student is doing.  An open classroom would help to engage the parents the same that other technologies would engage the students.