Today I hit a roadblock with my students and their use of technology. I don't know if it was because it was a Monday or if because this activity took place in the afternoon, but whatever the cause the learning did NOT take place. I had my students researching one of the thirteen original colonies on an internet site that I had already pulled up and modeled how to use. However, there was not one student in my class who was able to pull the required information from the site without a mishap. They either closed out of the internet so I had to pull up the site for them again, had no clue how to use the site because they weren't paying attention before, or sat and stared at the information not knowing how to use it. I found myself very frustrated because I felt that using the computers would have been a fun way to engage my students in the information because we had been using textbooks for the past few days but instead it backfired. The lesson that should have lasted 30 minutes took more than an hour and will have to be revisited tomorrow to even make sense of the goal. Now I see why rookies to technology integration come in hesitantly and turn away quickly...
Jessica -- Well, we have those days. But take heart, reenergize. Try it again and see if another day will be better. * Dr. B
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