Sunday, October 26, 2014
Blog post 10
The children In Mrs. Cassidy's class loved blogging. In the video "Little Kids... Big Potential" the kids said that every time they blog they get better at writing. The students use Wikis in the classroom. The students also use Skype to talk to experts. I really liked how the kids got to use their nintendo Ds'. I think technology is a great addition to the classroom. I think that it could cause a problem of being distracting at times. In the "Interview with Kathy Cassidy Part 1" she discussed her experiences with using technology. She says that she always likes to add new things to her blog and loves to integrate different kinds of technology. Mrs. Cassidy said that kids love technology. Mrs. Cassidy has many points like that the world has changed. The world now revolves around technology. We are handicapping our children by not teaching them how to use technology. Class blogmister records the amount of page reads that each student's blog gets. Every teacher should know how to manipulate technology. Technology is so important in today's society and we need to keep up with what's going on in today's technology. It is important for an educator to use twitter to network and connect with other educators. In "Interview with Kathy Cassidy Part 2" and "Interview with Kathy Cassidy part 3" She expressed some great thoughts on technology like the following points. Personal learning networks are extremely important. Twitter allows students and educators to find new links and webpages. It allows us to connect with teachers who are very experienced. Facebook can be a good tool for educators. Some teachers have their students set up a separate Facebook for school. Students could reach out their teachers for help via Facebook. I could see myself creating a private Facebook group for my students and posting assignments in the group wall.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Blog Post #9
In the article, "Seven Essentials for project based learning" the seven essentials are: a need to know, a driving question, student voice and choice, 21st century skills, inquiry and innovation, feedback and revision, and publicly presented product. A teacher can activate a student's need to know content by having a project with an entry event. The beautiful thing about an entry event it that it can be almost anything. Some examples are a video, a discussion, a guest speaker, or a field trip. An important part of project based learning is to make sure you have a driving question. The driving question is one of the most important parts of PBL.
In the video, "Project based learning for teachers" I learned some valuable ideas. Project based learning is a fun tool that gets both the students and the teachers involved. This video gave some great driving questions like how can we stop the spread of the flu in our schools? Project based learning is the how. Students learn communication skills while meeting the standards. Students also learn career and life skills via PBL. PBL is questioning, investigating, sharing, and reflecting.
In, "Two Students Solve the Problem of Water Ketchup Bottles By Designing a New Cap" two students designed a better solution for ketchup caps. They brainstormed ideas for a better cap. They designed the caps on the computer, they found the cap project to be fun. They said you can't design ketchup caps in a normal class.
In the video, "What Motivates Students to Learn" multiple students answered what motivates them. One student said she wanted to feed her family and have a good house, this is what motivates her. Another student said he wanted to be a business man and in order to do this he has to get good grades. One little boy said he would be grounded if he didn't do good in school. Some students said they love it when teachers give them candy when they succeed. Another little boy said he would like notebooks from his teacher. One teacher does music Monday, she allows the students to dance around the classroom.
The next video I watched was " Wing Project: Crafting a Driving Question." This video taught me how to better draft a driving question. How can we create a better wing structure ? The teachers in this video explained that you would have to take in the dimensions. The engineers explained that wing designing has to deal with loads carried. One of the teachers said, " A good driving question sets up a process of inquiry, students are interested in, and guides them toward how they are going to do the work they will have to produce."
In the video, "Project based learning for teachers" I learned some valuable ideas. Project based learning is a fun tool that gets both the students and the teachers involved. This video gave some great driving questions like how can we stop the spread of the flu in our schools? Project based learning is the how. Students learn communication skills while meeting the standards. Students also learn career and life skills via PBL. PBL is questioning, investigating, sharing, and reflecting.
In, "Two Students Solve the Problem of Water Ketchup Bottles By Designing a New Cap" two students designed a better solution for ketchup caps. They brainstormed ideas for a better cap. They designed the caps on the computer, they found the cap project to be fun. They said you can't design ketchup caps in a normal class.
In the video, "What Motivates Students to Learn" multiple students answered what motivates them. One student said she wanted to feed her family and have a good house, this is what motivates her. Another student said he wanted to be a business man and in order to do this he has to get good grades. One little boy said he would be grounded if he didn't do good in school. Some students said they love it when teachers give them candy when they succeed. Another little boy said he would like notebooks from his teacher. One teacher does music Monday, she allows the students to dance around the classroom.
The next video I watched was " Wing Project: Crafting a Driving Question." This video taught me how to better draft a driving question. How can we create a better wing structure ? The teachers in this video explained that you would have to take in the dimensions. The engineers explained that wing designing has to deal with loads carried. One of the teachers said, " A good driving question sets up a process of inquiry, students are interested in, and guides them toward how they are going to do the work they will have to produce."
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Blog post 8
I thoroughly enjoyed watching " Randy's last lecture" today. Randy is a professor with a big heart who happens to have brain cancer, he starts the lecture explaining he doesn't want to talk about cancer. He says he talks about cancer enough as it is. He shows everyone that he shouldn't be pitied and Is actually in better shape than most of the population. He tells the audience about his goals as a child. The first one was to reach sub zero gravity. He eventually reached this dream.
The second dream he had was to play pro football. He didn't make it to the pros but he learned a valuable lesson in his attempt to play little league. His coach explained that once you are making mistakes and nobody tells you that you are making them, that's a problem. This basically meant to me that once you're biggest fans stop telling you that you are messing up, it means they no longer believe in you.
He talked about his dream to win big stuffed animals and his attempt to be an imagineer.He talked about brick walls in life. These brick walls symbolize the struggles he went through in his life . You can't let brick walls get you down.
C4T summary
I was assigned to read ideasandthoughts.org these past few weeks. The author of this blog, Dean Shareski, is a very intelligent man. The first blog post of his i commented on was titled "Twitter as a Creative Outlet." Mr. Shareski has a very unique view about Twitter. He often uses Twitter as a way to make jokes and laugh about certain topics. He believes Twitter shouldn't be used for blogging because you can only say so much.
The second blog post I read is titled "Put the Laptop Down." In this post, David believes that the laptop shouldn't always be used in the classroom. He explains that most students have a hard time multi-tasking. He said something very interesting about how it is the teachers job to be more entertaining than the laptop or tablet, but that's not always possible. I responded with, " I agree that the laptop can be a distraction sometimes. I think that students should be encouraged to bring technology into the classroom though. Technology is such an important part in today's society, I think students should be able to access the Internet during lecture. I could definitely see times when it is appropriate to say, "alright class put the lap tops and tablets downs and let's focus on fractions."
My first comment I left is here.
Post about iPhones (will edit later)
After reading the statistics about students and the use of smart phones, I was not at all surprised. Smartphones are becoming a necessity it seems like. I personally am one of the individuals who have their phone glued to them at all times. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about smart phones and elementary school students yet. My cousins are 8 and 9 and they both have iPhones. Who are they texting ? They are just so young. I do believe children should have tablets and laptops though.
In the college setting I think technology is necessary. I take all my notes on my iPad , my notes are always neatly typed and organized in an app on my tablet. I know most business classes do not allow students to bring in phones or laptops. I think this is limiting the learning potential. Our generation is constantly around tablets and phones why not let them use it at school ? I know my notes are much more through than my friends that take notes with pen and paper. My iPad even allows me to paste charts onto my notes. If there is a concept I don't understand in class, I will take a picture of the board and post that into my notes.
I think iPad and smartphone cameras could be used in school daily. I watched a video last week about something called a Popplet. A Popplet is a chart used to summarize a topic or a book. The students take photos of pictures in the book and post them on the Popplet. I will definitely use the Popplet in my classroom. Another use for the camera on a tablet would be for a scavenger hunt. You could tell the students once they get to their ideal location on the scavenger hunt to take a picture of this location. You could also use the smart phone cameras in a Spanish lesson. I could say walk around the classroom and take pictures of the following objects: papel, Mesa, something rojo. This would be a fun interactive activity to test the children's knowledge on their new Spanish vocab words.
In the college setting I think technology is necessary. I take all my notes on my iPad , my notes are always neatly typed and organized in an app on my tablet. I know most business classes do not allow students to bring in phones or laptops. I think this is limiting the learning potential. Our generation is constantly around tablets and phones why not let them use it at school ? I know my notes are much more through than my friends that take notes with pen and paper. My iPad even allows me to paste charts onto my notes. If there is a concept I don't understand in class, I will take a picture of the board and post that into my notes.
I think iPad and smartphone cameras could be used in school daily. I watched a video last week about something called a Popplet. A Popplet is a chart used to summarize a topic or a book. The students take photos of pictures in the book and post them on the Popplet. I will definitely use the Popplet in my classroom. Another use for the camera on a tablet would be for a scavenger hunt. You could tell the students once they get to their ideal location on the scavenger hunt to take a picture of this location. You could also use the smart phone cameras in a Spanish lesson. I could say walk around the classroom and take pictures of the following objects: papel, Mesa, something rojo. This would be a fun interactive activity to test the children's knowledge on their new Spanish vocab words.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Blog Post 7
I watched "IPad Reading center ", what happens is the student records themselves reading with an iPad. Now the student can go listen/watch his video and see if he made any errors . I think this is a great tool ! This is a tool a student can use totally by his or herself .
I watched "Poplet with Ginger Tuck" she showed us how to create Popplets. A Popplets is used with an iPad. The title of the book goes in the center. She then uses a web to create squares surrounding the center square. The children can use photos, or write a description.
This tool reminds me of a reading idea web. With a reading idea web you can organize your thoughts on writing a paper. With a Popplet, it allows students to organize what they learned from a book. I definitely will use Popplets In the future. My group and I made a rubric revolving around Popplets.
In "AVL and kindergarten Students" I learned how to navigate around a new search engine. Students can pick a word and search that word. The search engine comes back with pictures and descriptions Of this word. They can actually watch videos/audios about whatever word they search. The students take what they learned from AVL and draw a photo and write a sentence about what they learned.
Today I watched, "Mrs. Tassin Students share Board Builder Project." The students created a Website for a pet shelter. They discussed why they were collecting money for the shelter. They used the source "Word Hippo" to find new words.
When I was in elementary school, we didn't have any smart boards or IPads. So all of the tools they use on the iPad to teach children are all new to me. I really enjoy that this class is teaching me skills I will actually learn in the future. Don't get me wrong I LOVE my major and I can't wait to be a teacher! But ... Some of the classes I take are so easy, I don't believe they will truly help me in the future. Even though we do many projects in this class, it's probably my favorite class. I've gained so many new ideas about teaching with technology. I know some people are skeptical about using
technology In the classroom.. But I love it ! When I go to class I don't even bring a pencil, I do EVERYTHING on my iPad, even math.
I think the biggest pro I have on PBL is my love for technology and excitement about using it in my future classroom. I think the biggest challenge I will face with PBL is my lack of experience with using it. I plan on paying close attention to the teachers when I do my student teaching.
I watched "Poplet with Ginger Tuck" she showed us how to create Popplets. A Popplets is used with an iPad. The title of the book goes in the center. She then uses a web to create squares surrounding the center square. The children can use photos, or write a description.
This tool reminds me of a reading idea web. With a reading idea web you can organize your thoughts on writing a paper. With a Popplet, it allows students to organize what they learned from a book. I definitely will use Popplets In the future. My group and I made a rubric revolving around Popplets.
In "AVL and kindergarten Students" I learned how to navigate around a new search engine. Students can pick a word and search that word. The search engine comes back with pictures and descriptions Of this word. They can actually watch videos/audios about whatever word they search. The students take what they learned from AVL and draw a photo and write a sentence about what they learned.
Today I watched, "Mrs. Tassin Students share Board Builder Project." The students created a Website for a pet shelter. They discussed why they were collecting money for the shelter. They used the source "Word Hippo" to find new words.
When I was in elementary school, we didn't have any smart boards or IPads. So all of the tools they use on the iPad to teach children are all new to me. I really enjoy that this class is teaching me skills I will actually learn in the future. Don't get me wrong I LOVE my major and I can't wait to be a teacher! But ... Some of the classes I take are so easy, I don't believe they will truly help me in the future. Even though we do many projects in this class, it's probably my favorite class. I've gained so many new ideas about teaching with technology. I know some people are skeptical about using
technology In the classroom.. But I love it ! When I go to class I don't even bring a pencil, I do EVERYTHING on my iPad, even math.
I think the biggest pro I have on PBL is my love for technology and excitement about using it in my future classroom. I think the biggest challenge I will face with PBL is my lack of experience with using it. I plan on paying close attention to the teachers when I do my student teaching.
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