Tech Demo Reflection

After doing my demo on the Pocket app, I think that it went fairly well. I focused only on the app because I think that that is more likely to be used by students, including myself. I was also considering what access students may have to technology. A growing number of schools give their students tablets- my own school gives the students iPads. In some cases, this tablet may be the only access to technology that a student has- they may not have a phone or computer at home. This means that that student would have to use the app, rather than the website for it. Pocket is not a tool that is really interactive, which I think made it more difficult to teach, but it is still a useful app that I think teachers should know about. The ability to find and save articles can be helpful when doing research. The app is fairly intuitive and I don't think that anybody struggled to learn how to use it, so I guess I would say that my lesson was successful in that respect. I do not think that I would have done anything differently- I walked away from teaching the lesson feeling like I had introduced the class to a new tool that they may find themselves teaching to their own classes one day.