The Perfect Classroom

Unfortunately, I don't yet have a classroom to observe, so we worked it out that I should think about what the perfect classroom might look like.

In my classroom, each student has access to every aspect of technology that they might need. The class session are comprised of lectures, group discussions, technological research, etc. My goal is to make studying history come to life. It is an extremely dry subject and my goal is to change that. I want students to be interested in studying and researching how their country has developed into what it is now. The classroom then would be very different than how it was before. Now it will be podcasted, so students can replay the classroom discussions to help study for tests or in case they were sick. Those podcasts would be posted on the class website, where students would have access to discussion forums, podcast lectures and class sessions, links to informational and helpful resource sites, and pdf's of all handouts and worksheets. I love the idea of having a class blog as well. Here students can post assignments and have discussions about the topics discussed in class. Hopefully this way, students, who are immersed in technology already, will be more interested in learning about their past and how it affects their present. My perfect classroom doesn't necessarily have to be smothered in technology, but as long as the students are engaged and interested then my job is being done.