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Since I am finished with my practicum experiences for this semester, I thought that I would comment about the lack of technology that I observed in elementary schools. It was quite disappointing, after learning about all the types of technology that can be implemented in the classroom, to see that barely any teachers used it. My practicum is in kindergarten, so that is not so difficult to see why my teacher would not be able to incorporate a lot of technology into lessons. Kindergarteners do not have the best motor skills, and it is probably more important to focus on teaching them basic skills using hand written forms anyway. But the only technology that I saw in the other grades that I observed (3rd and 5th) consisted of an elmo, which to me just seems like an updated blackboard. I wish I could have seen at least something else being incorporated into their lessons. I think a lot of the teachers just expect any sort of technology time for students to be when they go to the computer center once every six days.