Caitlin Atwood EDU Blog

 As a student, the only experience I can remember with blended learning is the use of stations. From what I can recall, the teachers that I had did a sort of routine similar to what Ms. Crofford does in her classroom, where she tells the students to go to their stations and bring what they need with them. I always thought it was fun to do something new every day, and my teachers/paras were always there to help me when I needed it. My teachers would implement reading and writing into different activities to help us improve these skills. We would also be able to use class resources, such as school computers and other visual aids in the classroom. Blended learning can be used to personalize instruction and meet needs by having different stations where the students could either work in groups or have one-on-one time with a teacher or a para. With the students who need more one-on-one help from their teacher, it could be a sort of station where they work independently for so long and th...

 As I went through the K-12 education system, I felt as if technology increased as I went into middle school and high school. I went to school through the Benton Community School District , which has multiple schools in the Benton County area in Iowa. I do not remember much technology being used while I was in elementary school, mostly because it was the late 2000s, and the use of the internet was fairly new. I started to experience more technology once I reached middle school, specifically because the school would issue us iPads. Though we had these iPads, I still noticed that there was quite a bit of work that was paper/pencil. From what I remember, we used a lot of resources for materials such as Google Classroom and Schoology, and then for work, we would use Notability and other sources like that. In high school, it was somewhat the same ordeal for my freshman/sophomore year because we still had the iPads. My sophomore year was the year that the pandemic hit, so we had to alter...

 This is my first blog post for Educational Technology Lab. Two of the things that I wrote for the technology timeline were somewhat contrasting. My first one was for 2012 when I discovered Cool Math Games. The second one was for the COVID pandemic when we starting doing virtual learning via Zoom.