Courtney's Blog

 

With currently being a senior here at Longwood University, and I am very invested in my education. Before coming to Longwood University, I earned my associate degree at Richard Bland College. While my time here at Longwood has been short, I still have had wonderful opportunities to make friendships, make memories, and receive a great education. While receiving my education, I have achieved many of the goals that I have set for myself and still have a few more to achieve. My most recent goal is to graduate from Longwood with my bachelor’s degree and go on to further my education by achieving my master’s degree in speech therapy.

Like most college students, I myself work. I believe that working through school can help you set goals, achieve those goals and help you be successful further on in life. While home on weekends and breaks, I wait tables. With working in a restaurant, I believe helps you build character and leadership skills. I have learned that with waiting tables, that the way you approach your customer says a lot. I always try my hardest to be friendly and caring when waiting on a customer. Even on a waiter or waitresses’ hardest days they still have to great costumers with great customer service. I have a lot of respect for waiters and waitress and try my hardest when I decide to dine out to be friendly with them. With working in a restaurant, you have an amazing opportunity to meet new people. I myself have meet plenty of people from different states and countries. While waiting on them you have a great opportunity to talk to them and can learn a lot from what they say. I have learned about how cultures in Europe differ from ours here in the United States. Along with waiting tables, I also work in a daycare. I believe that working in a daycare, can help build your leadership characteristics. With wanting to work with children, this has given me an amazing opportunity to help build my leadership skills by learning how to take control in a classroom.

 

I personally believe that technology in the classroom is a good thing. Technology is constantly changing and people and students will have to learn how to use it. By putting technology in the classroom this will give the students the oppurnity to learn how to use the technolgy while learning.  It will also let the students learn the material at their own pace. We are constantly using technology in our everyday lives wheathe it is from using a cell phone to sending an email on a computer. With corporating technology and learning in the classroom, students will have the oportunity to learn while having fun. A student might have trouble learning how to do simple math just by using a pencil and paper but when you coporate math into a computer game the student might pick up on it faster.  However, there is a down fall to it. People might think that using technology in the classroom that the students are not learning or they might think they might use their computer or ipad for something else when they should be learning. There are ways around this to make sure that they are staying on task.  From a personal experience by being in an elementary classroom that used computers and ipads for learning, they had certain cites blocked and the teacher was able to moniter each student with what they were doing. I think that having technology in the classroom is great and can help the student understand a subject better than just using a pencil and paper.