Gabriela Castillo

This is probably one of the hardest questions. Because at first grade we have—okay, in my classroom we have two computers right now and it would be ideal to say, okay, I have a computer for, you know, for every student, for every group of students so – but it's not going to happen. But I think that scheduling in the computer lab and being in such a large school, and trying to get into the computer lab, you know, when you need it, and in a standards-based classroom sometimes …you know, you're doing something and we end up doing – not doing something else completely, but because of what the kids want to learn, because of their questions—sometimes we end up doing something else. And it would really be nice to say okay, you know, let's go up to the computer lab so I can show you what I'm talking about. But because of the scheduling in our computer, in our lab here at our school… it's not possible. And because we only have the two computers here in the classroom, you know, I could only have maybe four kids on a computer at a time. And also the collaboration with the computer teacher, we—there needs to be more collaboration, I think, between the classroom teacher and the computer teacher to show us how to use some of that new technology. And I think that a lot of the software that our school has, and I think this probably is—I'm veering off a little bit. But the software that we have is—it gives the students the opportunity to practice those computation skills, it—but it doesn't really—there—the software isn't like open-ended, you know. So it doesn't give the kids a lot of the opportunity to create problems or to—I guess just to—you know, just to be more creative. It's more computational. And …so I think that there needs to be a change in that.