What software applications and hardware are students using in the classroom? How are they using them?
Students in this classroom use iPads as their main source of technology. They have 12 iPads in the classroom, but 8 of them routinely work. They are not 1 to 1 in terms of devices, but we may have that in the future, they’re hoping by next school year they will be. Students use the iPads to read and then answer comprehension questions via Raz-Kids.com (from Reading A to Z).  Students can also access our reading program, SuperKids, and visit the app SuperKids Online Fun. Additionally, the students complete math fluency activities via our math curriculum, Math Expressions. The curriculum has a learning platform called Think Central. On that platform, the students can access Personal Math Trainer which has games and fluency drills related to our units. Also, the students use Seesaw, an online learning journal app, to capture their work and reflect upon it.  This can then be shared with their families.

What software applications and hardware is your cooperating teacher(s) using in the classroom? Document both hardware and software. Describe how your cooperating teacher(s) uses the software applications and hardware.

My cooperating teacher uses a SmartBoard for her instruction.  She uses Smart Technologies software as well as the online teacher portals for their reading, math, science, social studies, and digital literacy programs.
From my own observations the SmartBoard is used in almost every lesson, from morning greetings, to journal prompt entries and their use of the SuperKids reading program. She also uses the SmartBoard as an interactive tool – where the students can come up to the board and complete little prompts. (i.e. when learning about telling time to the half hour we called students up to the front to read the time and write the time according to the picture of the clock shown). 

What software applications and hardware are facilitating/impeding the conditions that make student learning possible? How so?

The lack of 1 to 1 in terms of their devices is the greatest impediment at this time. They have engaging, relevant, and rigorous software but we do not have the appropriate technology to support its use. My cooperating teacher says that 10 (8) iPads for 20 students is a challenge.

What software applications and hardware are facilitating/impeding the conditions that make teaching possible? How so

My teacher says that, again, the lack of being 1 to 1 on technology devices and the poor working conditions of the existing technology devices is a significant hindrance to her teaching. Making it of course more challenging to complete different activities with all of her students.