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Week 5 technology in the classroom and school

  Time spent: 8:00-11:30 Sequence of Events.  Students are working on a 2D drawing from life, requiring them to find an image on google, then submit to a shared google slide in order for the teacher to print them off for them. However, on this day the wifi within the entire district was down. Internet use throughout the entire school was not an option.  Elaboration of One Significant Episode When thinking in terms of episodes and events surrounding technology use, I am immediately drawn to the new law that just passed in Indiana that students are not allowed to have their phones out in class in order to avoid distractions. Although I have a lot of thoughts surrounding this new law, I think that at its core it will never work, I also think it is unsafe given the amount of school shootings that occur at an alarming level within the United States.  With that being said, I have seen first hand how this law does not work in practice, especially within Muncie Central High ...
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Week 4 Classroom Climate and Culture

  Week 4 Classroom Climate and Culture Name: Kendal Roland  Date of field experiences reported: September 13, 2024  Time spent: 8:00 am -  11:30 pm Sequence of Events.  This focused observation focuses specifically on my time spent with Mrs. Daughertys Drawing class (8:05-8:50 am)  Students came into class one by one and filed into their assigned seats  Students grabbed their sketchbooks and began working on the daily prompt on the board  Today's prompt was to begin drawing thumbnail sketches of the black and white image they had chose last class (thursday) If students had submitted their image to the schoology shared document last class, Mrs. Daughtery had printed off their image for the student After about 10 minutes of students working on these thumbnail sketches, Mrs. Daugherty transitioned to the next part of the class, which was the students submitting a video of their sketchbooks documenting the daily prompts they responded to over the cour...

About Ms.Kendal

Hi! My name is Kendal Roland and I am currently a senior art education major at Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. This semester I am completing my third and final practicum before heading to Ramstein, Germany to student teach on an Air Force base. This blog will serve as a journal for my secondary practicum where I post weekly reflections and intentional focused observations.