Reflections on Shirley Warren school

Firstly I would like to say thank you to Tom, whom without this day would have not been possible. I was amazed by the technology that one school could have. The classroom that we were in was brilliant. I have on past school experiences only seen one other fully set up computer room, the others only had a portable laptop station and the odd computer based around the school. Tom discussed the potential of the easy speak microphone for children who find it hard to put words down on paper, thus allowing the skills that are required in the literacy classroom (speaking, listening, writing); the animation and filming can be used in conjunction with storytelling bringing another dimension to this area as well as being used as a motivation tool to help the different way in which children learn, not to be stereotypical but visual, audio and kinaesthetic, plus all the learning styles. However, one thing that I learnt was that Shirley Warren had chose quite expensive equipment, and as schools are on quite tight budgets, costing will be one of the factors to which and how much each school can cover. Although as Tom pointed out he has collected tokens from a big supermarket to buy his microphones and this could be a starting point. As a 'digital immigrant' I love this saying! Am am truly motivated to give these ideas a go and feel my confidence growing weekly from this module, and hopefully will take this into the classroom with me.