Final Blog Post

My Technology Inventory Plan cited that I would use the automatic live stock exchange in order to teach students about supply and demand.
We have successfully implemented this lesson fairly recently in my economics class. Students enjoyed first "buying" stock, and then graphing what's happened to their stock over the past few weeks. As we move more into the curriculum and they develop vocabulary, what the graphs mean makes more sense to them.
Looking at Grapplings Technology and Learning Spectrum, I would say this activity falls maybe somewhere between adapting uses and transforming uses. This activity falls towards the adapting uses because it was somewhat teacher centered- the graphs were on the one teacher computer and projector. In addition, it was interesting, but we still could have taught our curriculum without using live stock, and our learning and assessment practices were still the same.
However, this is also like a transforming use because my team teacher and I used these graphs as the sole basis and examples of teaching the curriculum to our students. We had no idea whether our live "example" would rise or fall, and based what we taught based off of what happened. We used the technology to construct our meaning about economics and the stock exchange. The students in essence created their own learning experience by "buying" or "selling" stock, and voting on who's company to "invest" in.