Digital Cameras Reflection

WHAT?:
In class this week we learned about using digital cameras in the classroom. This upcoming week in class we are suppose to bring 10 photos that we take following a core curriculum. We will then use these photos to put together a slide show/lesson plan following a certain curriculum.

SO WHAT?:
I think that this is a very important topic to learn as a teacher, because using digital cameras in the classroom is going to be a great tool. I especially think that using the slide show/lesson plan. I also think that using digital cameras in the classroom will become helpful in documenting the things we do in my classroom throughout the year. Whether that mean taking pictures of field trips, of presentations, of posters, etc. It will be very helpful to look back on different presentations I have done and reenact them. Also this will help being able to show them to my collegues and the parents of my students.

On the paper of 100 ways to Use Digital Cameras it listed so many good, creative ways to use digital cameras in the classroom. I am looking forward using many of these ideas in my classroom when I become a teacher. I think the reason we are using digital cameras in the classroom is because it makes showing different things to the students so much easier. Also, as a teacher/collegue it can make your job a lot easier. Showing lessons through pictures help the students really visualize what you are saying. I know that a lot of children nowdays are visual learners and have to see exactly what you mean and what you are teaching them. I am looking forward to using this very accessible thing in my classroom.

NOW WHAT?:
I think that this type of technology is going to be very conveinent for my students, because the way I will be teaching will be a lot easier for them to see visually through the digital pictures. I think that I will be able to give my students some similar assignments like we got this week in class. I will have them take some pictures outside of class or even during in class, and then have them put together a slideshow/lesson together with the images that they take. I think that this will make me become a better teacher by being a visual/organized teacher. Also, I think it will help me become a better collegue by sharing these ideas/images with my coworkers and putting presentations together with them.

I think that this is going to change the way we teach in the classrooms, and in some ways I think it already has. You see more and more teachers teaching with the use of digital cameras in their classrooms nowdays. I know that I am going to use digital cameras in my classroom and really I was not aware of all the ways that digital cameras could be used in the classrooms. I am glad that we were able to get a list of all the different ways to use them. I know I will put most of them to use in my classroom!