Carli Vroman - Teaching

       From my personal experience, as a student with blended learning I mainly used online sites like Khan Academy and Kahoot. We used these in English and Math classes. I am not sure exactly what the uses for these were because I cannot really remember what we had used them for other than those classes I previously mentioned. I remember not liking to use Khan Academy, but I am not sure why I did not like it. Kahoot on the other hand was very fun and a good part of class whenever we did activities on there. This would all go along with the subjects we were currently learning about in those classes and help us study or learn more about them.       Blended learning can be used to personalize instruction and meet the needs of individual students by using certain programs or options that can work towards a specific student's academic goals. A lot of websites can allow you to take pre-assessments that will place you where you need to be placed.  ...

Looking at my own use of technology in the classroom in high school we used a lot of different technologies but ones that were not as advanced as other schools would. We had chrome books that were placed in every classroom. When we went online for Covid we were all given our own Chromebook to use in case we did not have a computer to use at home and also so they could pay more attention to what we were doing on them. Other technologies in my high school would have just been the projectors we had in every classroom. I do not remember any other technology in classrooms other than the TVs on Rolly carts and the old projector with the plastic pages to write on.  In elementary school, we had pretty much the same amount of technology, but I do not really remember how often or what exactly we used in the classroom. In College, I have used about the same amount of technology as my laptop, projectors, and other smaller pieces of technology. The courses I take do not allow me to use newer an...

 This is my first post for Tech Lab. I first remember using technology in an educational setting in kindergarten which would have been 2008 I think, and we would watch videos on our TV about what we were learning about.