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 I have read this week many interesting lectures. I have to say that I'm very excited to share with my school team all of the things that I'm learning, hopefully we can implement something better than what we currently have in our campus in terms of delivering technology instruction at a pre-k level. I found CAST very interesting and helpful. There are so many things that we forget to do while teaching such as providing different approaches to reach all the needs of our students. We sometimes forget that there are different learning styles and that not all of them learn the same and at the same pace. We might have a student that just by listening you talking about the lesson will learn all that you expect. However, there will be other students that you might need to do a chart and talk (re-teach the lesson) so they can get it. There are going to be times that the 2 examples that I gave would not be enough, and you will find yourself singing, crawling or climbing a tree to make sure that those that are behind understand the concept and learn. Nevertheless, there will be students with language barriers (ELL-ESL students), and/or with physical-learning disabilities, and your lessons are going to be very different to the ones that you used for the rest of the class. I think that using technology in our classrooms is a great tool to complement and enrich our lessons, because using multimedia (which covers voice, video, animations, etc.) will give different stimulus to our multiple types of learners and they will be able to comprehend and learn once the objective-lesson have been taught. In fact, once we use technology, they are learning not just how to use a technology tool but also the objective that we are working on. In my personal experience I have to say that using computers as part of my lessons has been wonderful. I have been able to address different issues at the same time, and I can work with them one to one even faster than if I’m working just with letters or sounds with a samll group, for instance.