One interesting thing that I observed was the effect of technology in the classroom. When I was in high school, phones were not allowed at all to be used during school until my senior year, and even then, each teacher had a choice in whether they wanted to allow their students to use their phones or not. If our teacher was one of the ones that didn’t want students to use phones, then we could use them in the halls and during lunch. Now, students can be on their phones anywhere and this affected the progress of some of the students’ work being done. Some of my teacher's students used this opportunity to listen to music on their phones while doing their art work and encourage creativity, but there were those students who would use classroom time to be on their phones. For example, in her first Art 1 class, she had one female student that was always late to class. When she would get there, she would be on her phone for most of the class and talking to her friends. She would get on to her about starting her work but there’s only so much she can do seeing that phones are allowed and also the fact that their teacher is on her phone as well whenever she isn’t helping a student. I guess this would be something I would have to adjust to once I start teaching.
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