Digital technologies seem to have secured a safe place at my second semester placement school. It's not immersive, but in the classes I've observed so far I've been seeing thoughtful, purposeful and worthwhile uses of digital technologies in classes. The school has a number of interactive whiteboards (very limited experience with these, so looking forward to having a go), most rooms have data projectors and there are student computer 'pod rooms' for use during class time. From the hallways I've seen teachers using interactive whiteboards in science classes, and one of the ESL teachers was using the data projector in his class to co-write an essay on his laptop with his students yesterday, which seemed to work really well. My English mentor also takes media studies, and is really keen on programs like Glogster and Storybird*, which she's used before with her Year 8s. Looking forward to introducing some of those kinds of things into my lessons as well.
*Check out Storybird here. A great program, free too, and I think worthwhile in lots of subjects outside of English.
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