Team work…

I have been meeting with the teacher after class for the last two days. I realized today more than ever than we have become a team. We have been able to negotiate and plan together the activities of the week. The teacher has been flexible and open to accommodate my ideas and recommendations, and I am doing the same as we work together.

We talked again about their experiences taking the computers home last night. It was very interesting to see how the children told us about their parents wanting to learn about computers, thinking seriously about getting one, and discussing among themselves and wondering if they were too old to learn. There is a family, which has a computer already, who has decided to buy Microworlds for their children. Based on the stories and what I heard I am putting together a collection of questions I want to ask the parents. I am thinking about sending a questioner and then interviewing few of them.

I spent time today looking at the solar system projects, which children have not finished yet. While I met with some of the children, the other ones spent time with the pre-school kids… they have now a routine every week with the pre-school kids during which they teach them about what they learned with the technology. We have planned to continue with the solar system theme. We are now moving to a 3D representation of the solar system. We will continue tomorrow.

We also started today an activity on the children’s responsibility and rights… I guess we are doing both activities at the same time. We have given them the freedom to work with any material or technology they like. They started working today on those project and they will continue tomorrow… and the following day if they are not done.