Teaching Day Five

Today we had a warmup activity and then let the students use the rest of the time typing on laptops their script. We were able to check out four lap tops from the BYU library for the students to use! It was such a good idea because they worked harder having a computer to use and they were able to collaborate more. I think it was a good use of technology that furthered their progress in writing their play. For student centered learning there was one student who said he was able to think better when he had his ipod earphones in and so I let him keep one in one ear. And he did work better and was able to come up with more ideas. I think that as a teacher to be aware of the students needs is important and know that the same thing won't work for every student. I wondered what activities we could have done to give them more energy back so that they didn't feel drained from writing and thinking at the end of the period. That's something I'll add to this unit in the future.