Hello, I am Dina Vander Wilt. I am a Kindergarten teacher, a mom, and
technology nut. I have been teaching 20
years. I have amazing 4 children and a
wonderful husband who puts up with my crazy.
For the past 5 years I have been teaching Technology for Teachers at
Dakota Wesleyan University and surprise my 4th child came along at
40 which made my life wonderfully busy. Unfortunately,
I am not Wonder Woman so I had to give up my wonderful college students and
stick with my wonderful Kindergarten students and my beautiful babies. Because I can no longer teach about something
that I am completely passionate about. I am going to teach through this
blog. I hope I can spread my knowledge,
experiences, and ideas to make my teacher friends lives a little easier.
Technology is important to our student’s future. We need to expose them to as much technology
as possible. Even though technology
changes so quickly, learning from old technology helps prepare them for the new
technology. Plus, we need to teach our
students how to use technology in more creative ways and not just playing games
and watching videos. I am also a firm believer
that we need to balance hands-on learning and technology. We should not be spending the majority of our
school day on electronic devices.
I have had iPads in my classroom for 4 years but just the
last two have been 1 to 1. In March 2017
the administration pulled my iPads and gave me a classroom set of
Chromebooks. This has been a struggle
and I am up for the challenge, but for those of you who have iPads, you can
understand my frustration. Kindergarten
and Chromebooks is much more challenging.
This blog will document my journey and maybe help someone else. My philosophy is make it as easy and
purposeful as possible. Hope you
enjoy!
No comments:
Post a Comment