I am a horticulture instructor in an adult male state correctional facility. My teaching philosophy incorporates much hands on, visual and kinesthetic learning, with a pragmatic approach. My students range from early twenties to early to mid seventies. This is a continuous struggle to develop and incorporate a variety of learning tools for all to have an equal opportunity to learn. The program runs on an open entry open exit system so all students work at their own pace and all are all on different chapters of three different texts at any given time.
I hope to learn from this course better ways to incorporate technology to enhance the program with all learners in mind. Additionally, with the limited amount of technology available within the prison setting.
Thank you for your time,
April Gromel
There can definitely be some challenges to incorporating technology inside a prison setting. I used to support a school inside of a Philadelphia prison. The office there still used a dial-up modem to communicate with the district office.
ReplyDeleteWe have an intranet but only in locked offices, we have 10 teachers, a library asst and librarian that all must share three computers in locked staff offices. This is to accomplish all email, & clerical/student records. My classroom is not in this building so all must be accomplished over my lunch/prep period. The classroom has a non-networked computer for staff use only.
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