Week 10. Reflections

Time flies. I can't believe that the difficult but really exciting course is over. Thanks to Sean and other moderators I have learned a lot of tools of modern technology and started using them. I see that my way of teaching has greatly improved.

I am also grateful to all my virtual co-students who were very helpful and cooperative. I have learned a lot from them and really enjoyed working together. I hope I will "meet" them on other virtual courses I am going to take.

This week I researched the articles from Washington and Florida which were really interesting. According to Tiers of Technology Integration, I discovered that my school is being practicing the second tier, which means conducting the lessons with the help of the only class computer and a video projector. I use it mainly for teaching English Literature and other audio-video materials. Unfortunately we have only one computer room in our school, so I cannot use it every day. I take my students there mainly 2-3 times a month.

Despite highly developed technologies including hi-tech, Israel still lacks computers in the classrooms. There are only special computer rooms in schools. But some changes are being made. The Ministry of Education is going to introduce taking matriculation exams only online, so Israeli schools will have to make the rocess of learning more computerized. I believe that our country is on the way to the third tier, a it was described in the article from Washington University. Some hi-tech schools have already done it.

All the best!
Julia