Before I came to Slippery Rock, I went to Malone College, which is located in Canton, Ohio. There they have the education majors doing field experience their freshman year. I completed 40 hours of field experience in a Second grade classroom at Cedar Elementary School. This school was in the inner-city and had very little money. During my time there the students were exposed to very little technology. In fact, there was only one computer in the room and it was probably made in the early 90's. This experience left me with having no idea what kinds of new technology was out there for classrooms. However, last semester here at SRU, I had the opportunity to do my field work at Pine Richland Elementary School, which is a rather wealthy district. In the classroom I was observing there was technology everywhere and it was incorporated into the teaching. One of the assignments that the students were working on was using the computers to create storyboards. I saw first hand how they exposed the students to technology while still meeting academic goals. It was also quite evident that they enjoyed what they were doing and they were learning as well. Pine Richland also uses laptop carts which I had never heard of before.
So just keep in mind that the district you end up working in may be full of technology or it may have very little resources available for you to use. I personally want to work in an inner-city school, but hopefully I will find one that has resources that I can use in my classroom to integrate technology into the curriculum.
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All of my experiences were like your field experience. Even in my student teaching there wasn't much technology. I think it's great that you saw technology at Pine Richland. I was at a rather poor district and there were many computers, but nothing was ever done on them. I'm glad we had this class so I can know what's out there to use.
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