Last Friday, September 21st, I was walking by a Biology class on Bothell Senior High-School campus, where I am doing my student-teaching observations. I happened to stick my head into the door, which was open, and I saw the biology teacher using a digital projector. I've only seen one before: Prof. Garrett showed our class how to use them one day in Instructional Design very briefly. I thought it was really neat the day she first showed it, but it was a totally different thing to see it actually being used in a classroom setting.
The teacher was using it to project notes on photosynthesis onto a large projector screen, and was able to freeze her writing while removing the sheet she was writing on. She had a picture of the leaves that she was describing projected along-side her writing.
As I walked away from the classroom, I was struck by how much the classroom and teaching itself has changed only in the last five years since I graduated. Technology empowers teachers to unfold information effectively and efficiently. It likewise empowers students to grapple with ideas and take hold of information in ways that are often much more interactive than previous generations allowed. With the advance of technology, communicative ability of expression and creativity is likewise enhanced . . . and only provides a stronger foundation for the students of today to lead into tomorrow.
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