Managing a computer class

Before I had even started my studies in the Beals, I was thinking about how it would be like to manage a computer class. As you can read in the previous entries on my blog, I don’t have so much knowledge about the technologies related to computers. Since December, I have a laptop and I am very interested in discovering how it can be helpful for my studies. Even if my knowledge is not so great, I would be very interested to direct students in a computeur calss. I don’t have any problem to say to the students that my knowledge is limited. I would ask the some students to teach the others. This would also be a way for me to have a more student’s centered class.

There are many issues related to computer class management. First, it is clear that the teacher as to develop his/her tricks to make sure that the students listen in class. This does not make me nervous at all because I think I will discover what works better for me with experience.

As it was motioned in class, the teacher is also responsible to control the content view by the students on internet. For the younger students I think that a more strict approach should be used. However, I think that online gambling, pornographic websites, etc, are very accessible to students, no matter if they are inside or outside that class. I think that the best way is to explain why it is not good to go on these websites no matter if they are inside or outside the class.

Since my cooperative teacher in my practicum does not go the computer lab very often, I don’t have practical knowledge about this issue. After an interesting conversation during my Computer Application course, many questions aroused. For example, do teachers go to the computer lab only to complete writing and reading tasks? How can a teacher includes meaningful conversation in such a setting?

To conclude, I am not very stressed about having to manage a computer class. I have enough confidence that I will be able to deal with this situation with success. Knowing that some students are very good to use computer makes me feel even more confident.