Week 6- Brandon School Division Technology

This week we had a guest speaker from Brandon School division who discussed the technology within the division. Kelly had talked about the fact that Brandon School division is Microsoft based and if there is a form of a Microsoft program available teachers use that instead of something else. I was amazed at this because of the fact that although programs are similar, they do differ and some that are not Microsoft based are often programs that offer more. The fact that teachers are stuck using mostly Microsoft based programs could be seen as a downfall. I think that teacher are fully capable of using the internet and the programs on it, effectively and responsibly, so therefore I think that they should be able to explore with what programs that they would like to use to teach and engage students. I think that limiting this is harming the students in the end because of the opportunities that they may be missing out on.
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