Reflection 4

I really enjoyed the recent article that I have read on keeping it simple in the classroom. Snyder talks about how in a social studies classroom, software could set up an international political standoff and the students can role play to various officials. Also in a science classroom you could do more of a "shop-class" approach and the students could learn how to take apart,  rebuild and creat their own software. In a math lesson though, Albrecht would just use a Tupperware full of  dice and base ten blocks. He said he could do more with these kinds of manipulatively than he could with computers. This article very well explained why and how to make technology easy and keeping it simple in the classroom.