ILP Design-Prezi

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#10: Data Collection Tools & Skills

#1: I really want to become a preschool teacher. Data Collection Tools cannot really be used in that grade level because teachers assess them by observing what they are learning how to do through class time and games, not online work. Since I have observed older grades, that is the grade levels I would use them on. I would use Data Collection Tools to assess how far along my students are with their work and knowledge. Most of the assignments will be turned in through some kind of online software so it will be graded automatically, and alert the teacher aka me if the student is below the average. The subject matter could literally be any subject a teacher wants to assign work too. 

#2: From reviewing my classmates' blogs, I realized there are a lot more technology based software out there than I ever thought there could be. From Edmodo to Diigo, technology can help teachers out so much if the teacher uses those kinds of software correctly. I knew all about the Microsoft Office software, but I learned so much more while doing these blogs and practicing them during class.

#3: I would probably really enjoy learning more about the technology in the sports lab that we visited. I really like the whole idea behind the ADD/ADHD learning. The different technologies used within that field would help a lot of different students that need to be active at the same time they are learning. I could take different classes that have things to do with that certain field, and those variety of technologies.

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#9: Flipped Classroom, "Open" Terms, and PowerPoint

#1: "The Flipped Classroom" is a delivery model that does educational video casts. The idea is to actually flip the way students and teachers actually spend classroom time. This would be how a student would watch to a prerecorded lecture for homework whether they were absent for real class time or if they want more information before going to class. This delivery model has expanded a lot since it first was started, and now a diverse group of teachers use this kind of tool. This world is changing into an all technology kind of world, and this is one of the technology tools in education that is helping teachers and students change with it. http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ is an example of a free website that students can go to and learn more information about different subjects and lessons.

#2: For open education, this is being used so a wide variety of students can have access to learning material. One prime example said in the podcast is MIT's open education. It is called MIT open courseware, https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm  , and it is free educational videos that anyone with a computer and wifi can access it. Teachers also use open educational tools for inspiration on what and how to teach their students certain lessons and concepts.

#3: During the PowerPoint Interaction project, I learned many new things that I didn't know before. I never realized that someone could go through a powerpoint without actually technically clicking to the next slide. I really liked this project because it is a whole new way to look at the PowerPoint software. 

5 tools for an awesome presentation

5 tools for an awesome presentation-By Samid Razzak from Md. Samid Razzak

This presentation stood out to me because it is very straight to the point. The background pictures are nice to look at, but don't take away from the information being said on the slide. Every slide only has a couple of words, so no one can get distracted or bored from reading all the slides.

#8 Sports Lab, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Professional Development

#1: The last thing we experienced was a board that lit up with lights after times and different places, which at the same exact time, numbers or a math problem would pop up in the middle of the board. The student, athlete, or anyone would have to press the lights at the same time as they are saying the numbers or the answer to the equation out loud. I believe this would be beneficial to schools because this could strengthen the students' brain power, or if they were disabled physically, it could also help strengthen their muscles for just normal movement. I think this could be a fun math game that all students would want to play, and the teacher could even give out rewards at the end to the student who answer all the questions right, the fastest student, etc.

#2: Bloom's Taxonomy levels, from top to bottom, are create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. Using PowerPoint, for the first level, I would design an abstract presentation that would keep the student's interested. For the second level, I would present the students a question or opinion, and get them discussing what their standpoint is on the specific topic. For the third level, I would show them all the different opinions their peers had and get them all together in small groups to let them compare their own ideas in their own words. For the fourth level, using that same question or opinion I did before, I would show them the real life example I got that information from, and then see if they could put that same idea into a whole new situation. For the fifth level, I would show them how all their ideas could come together as one, and present all the different opinions that one idea resulted in. For the last level, I would give them a pop quiz at the end of the presentation to see if all the information I was talking about got through to them.

#3:

http://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/7-must-know-classroom-technology-trends-that-are-changing-education
This website shows all of the technology trends that make the biggest impacts on education. It describes how all of these technologies are changing education for the better. It explains the description of every technology and what it does, and also how it has benefited technology. It also says how all technologies are going to be flipped to the bad side if there is no wireless network, or a good source of power.

#7: Assistive Technolgies, Web Page Design, and Diigo

#1: Assistive technologies are any "equipment or products used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability". These types of technologies are used to help disabled people use computing equipment. In the podcast, it tells us that they will use an input/output device to more effectively use different types of software. I have not known anymore to use these kinds of assistive technologies, but I can see how helpful these are to people that actually do use these. In my classroom, if these technologies were used, I believe I wouldn't know how to work with them very well. I know I would need to take a class or watch a video on how to use these kinds of technologies to be able to show my students how to use them effectively.

#2: While working on the Web Page Design assignment, I found myself very frustrated. I have worked with the same kind of software that is called Wix, and I believe their format is so much easier to figure out the weebly. I found out new ways to search things like pictures, but it was very difficult to maneuver where my image was placed and the format it was placed in. Maybe next time, a class set aside just to teach us how to change and edit things would help a lot. In the future, I could use this assignment to help me build my real class website, and help me know what parents and students are actually looking for when they look up the class page. http://sloaneme2040.weebly.com/

#3: Diigo is honestly a really cool website where everyone in your class could be on the same page. I believe that Diigo helps students like me out everything in one place, and combine all the like terms and use them to our advantage. When you are on a team, you always want everyone together a looking at everything from different angles to get the best outcome. With Diigo, this can happen and in the classroom, this is one of the most important things to happen too.

ILP "Design"-Edmodo

My independent learning project is an edmodo assignment, quiz,video, and poll for my 5th grade students about the key shortcuts on a computer. The assignment is matching certain key shortcuts with the correct name for them, and the quiz and video is on the same material just in multiple choice questions. This is really helpful because it would help the students learn over and over again the key shortcuts I am trying to teach them. It will seem like it is repeating, but the students won't forget the material that is being taught to them.

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#6: School Website and Technology

#1: The school website I am using is from my past middle and high school, Westminster Christian School. The kind of information someone can find on their website is information that benefits everyone's knowledge. This information includes things like when the next grading quarter starts, when the upcoming fundraisers are, and photos of the students doing work in class. This kind of information goes for all grades, but the one in specific I am looking at is for middle school, which includes the grades sixth, seventh, and eighth.

#2: The way I see myself using technology to accomplish my responsibilities and goals as a teacher is to use all the knowledge I gain throughout my entire lifetime before and during my education career. Teachers have to learn as they go because they won't know everything before getting inside the classroom and actually teaching students concepts they need to know to get through their academic life. I would keep up with the new software that is being made for the classroom, and the online tools that would help me teach the students the concepts in a more efficient and effective way.

#3: I did not attend last week's field trip to the Technology Sandbox, but I went last semester with my EDF 1005 class. Last semester, I experience the most with the SMART board, and I thought it would be the most helpful tool inside the classroom. It could make the lessons more interactive, and that would help the students learn in a different way, other than just lecturing to them. I believe this kind of technology in the classroom would benefit the students way more than cause a negative effect on them.

#5: Web 2.0

#1: Web 2.0 is a more sophisticated version of Web 1.0. Web 2.0 includes more social networking sites such as Twitter, YouTube, and blogs. I believe that Web 2.0 tools are more useful in the classroom because they are more user friendly, and more people are familiar with them. I think they are very useful because they actually make the students want to learn the lesson, and become more active during the class time because these kinds of tools are more interactive than they use to be. These kinds of tools just engage the students in the concepts the teacher is trying to teach, and I believe that this helps the teacher professional development tremendously.

#2: https://www.scribd.com/
Scribd is a very unique website that I never knew about until right now. I would use this website/ tool in my classroom when I'm teaching. I think it is a very useful tool to have in the classroom because it gives the students and teachers access to all different kinds of books. It also gives the option of listening to the audio books, which could be very helpful if the students couldn't make it to class that day, or any other reason too. The only thing I would complain about is how it isn't free, but I completely understand that people have to make money somehow, and they know teachers are going to want to use this kind of tool in their classroom.

#3: In chapter 12, it talks about many emerging technologies that could help education in the future. In my opinion, I believe the best one is gamification. Gamification is described as adding different kinds of game elements to a variety of concepts to increase the students' motivation and interactivity. I believe the students' imagination and creativity is one of the biggest things that is lost in the classroom, and if one of these tools could bring that back, it would be the best thing to happen to the educational field. In today's world and even more in the future, technology and electronics are going to be taking over the classroom. If the lessons and concepts could be turned into a more fun, educational gaming style instead of just a lecture, it could change the ways students learn forever.

#4: Twitter, Software, and Websites

#1: Using Twitter throughout the beginning of this course has gone pretty smoothly. Since I already knew how to move around on Twitter, nothing too difficult has popped up that I couldn't figure out. I have been interacting with many of my classmates, the EME2040 account, and some of the educational accounts that I follow. I have found interacting with these different accounts have been beneficial towards because I am learning about educational problems going on that I would've never thought about. Twitter could be helpful in my future career because information spreads very quickly on this social media, and I believe in the education field, information needs to be spread to educators and administration quite quickly.

#2: In today's world, the digital divide is the children knowing how to live without a computer, and the one's that have not known a world without technology. Since all of the children of today's world in preschool, elementary school, middle school, and even high school are considered digital natives and haven't gone through any schooling without technology, their success through these different active learning software has been affected in a good way. Through things like tutorials and drill-and-practice, educational games, and simulations the students are engaged with the concepts and it promotes different kinds of learning. With desktop publishing, graphics, and reference students are able to enhance their visual learning skills. The students could make things such as flyers, posters, worksheets, etc. With the special needs and ISL, integrated learning systems, software, it targets specific concepts and helps the students effectively learn those concepts. I believe that sometimes when children are dependent on technology its a very bad thing, but I believe that these kinds of software help the students still be dependent on their own minds.

#3: When evaluating websites, I believe people need to consider whether the website is actually helpful to the reason why they are on it in the first place. When someone goes looking for a website, they usually want something that is going to contribute to their cause in a good way. A website needs to look very neat and professional for me to keep exploring on it. I think websites need to keep a person's attention because if it doesn't, they will click 'exit' in a blink of an eye. Websites are one of the most popular ways for people to get information from, and the website needs to consider people's different opinions and try to stay unbiased to everything. 

#3: Technology and Newsletter

#2: Word, Copyright, and Twitter

#1: Microsoft Word has been a part of my student life throughout the entire thing. Whether it was just practicing spelling and sentence structure to writing ten page research papers, word has been my best friend throughout it all. Teachers use word to type up instructions and examples to show their students during their class time. Usually, anything one of my teacher's assigned me, I had to use word at some point during the assignment. I do not think word will ever not be used in schools by students or teachers, and the updates will just keep getting better and better.

#2: My experience with copyright and fair use of materials in an education environment have been a pretty straight forward experience. I have never gotten in trouble with using copyrighted works in the wrong way, and I do not know any one of my teachers that has gotten in trouble either. I know when a teacher was explaining a project or lesson during class, they would always tell the students where they were getting this information from and why they were using it in the first place. As a teacher, I would stress the fact that using copyrighted materials in the incorrect way could get someone in a whole lot of trouble that could have been completely avoided. I would do the same thing my teachers did, which was explain themselves and their reasoning behind using this kind of material. If I was developing my own instructional material, I would only use another teacher's work as a guideline to make my own. I would never copy someone, and call it my own information.

#3: Since I am nineteen years old, I was already very familiar with Twitter. Usually, people my age can get around any kind of social media quite quickly. Twitter is not a new thing to me so I am glad we are using it to pass information around. Personal learning networks on the other hand are a very new thing to me. I believe that PLNs could help my future career in many different ways. These help me have personal relationships with the educators around me, and helps me collaborate with other people. Your future career is all about the network you make for yourself and the connections you make with other people working in the same field as you. I believe PLNs could shape an educators career from the early beginning.

#1: Computers

#1: Computers are an important part of the educational experience because wherever that student moves on in life, whatever career that student chooses, there will always be a computer somehow involved. Every person living in today's world needs to have experience with a computer, and have the knowledge of how to move around on one. Every educator must know certain aspects about technology and how to use it correctly inside a classroom. I would say one of the main concerns about technology and teachers is that some teachers will use the technology to replace their role in the classroom. Technology is going to always have a giant role in every classroom, and I believe that these issues need to be dealt with carefully because it could affect the student's life forever.

#2: The ISTE standards are a set of standards that needs to be there. They are trying to make the education system better by teaching the educators how to educate the future generations about technology. The NETS-S is a standard that I really enjoy seeing in place. Educators today need to have the knowledge and the skill set to use technology while teaching.  This standard makes the educators effective and helpful towards the students. The CAEP standard I also enjoy seeing, but I believe that if that standard isn't met, it could hurt instead of help the students. I know I need to keep going farther into my education to truly learn how to use this kind of standard to the best of my knowledge. If I, or any other future educator doesn't do this, instead of enhancing our teaching, we could make our teaching worse, and hurt the students' education.

#3: I do agree with the term "digital native" for today's youth because if you haven't noticed, every toddler, child, adolescent, and young adult have some kind of technology around them, pretty much at all times. In today's world, people do not know how to live life without technology being involved. A digital native means growing up around technology, and being very comfortable around it by an early age. I've had some classes where the teacher tries to use some kind of technology during the lesson, and the students have to explain to the teacher how to actually use that kind of technology correct. I don't believe it has impacted my learning experience in a bad way because the lesson still gets taught to the classroom. I anticipate the difference of when I was in a classroom to when I am a teacher of a classroom, the students and I will more closely be on the same page/knowledge of the technology I am using for that lesson. "Digital native" is honestly a perfect label for the youth of today.  

#0-Technology Past

#1: In my past, technology has been a big impact on my life. Throughout middle and high school, in every single one of my classes, somehow technology was incorporated into it. I wouldn't describe myself as an expert on technology, but I am pretty confident that I know how to get around on a computer. I have used all the popular applications students usually use in a classroom, such as PowerPoint, SMART board, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. Our generation has grown up with technology so to me, figuring things out on the computer by myself isn't a hard thing to do.

#2: In this class, I really hope to explore more things to do with the different types of technology I already know a few things about. I have seen different types of Power Points and prezis that I wish I could have made for myself. I feel like this class is going to help me move faster around different types of the technologies that are going to be used in the classroom. I hope that I learn different ways how to use specific types of technologies, and good ways to incorporate them into a classroom.

#3: By these results, I learned that I am more of an active and visual learner. I am no where near a sensing learner, and I am kind of a sequential learner. I learn best in groups, and actually doing things with the information that I am trying to retain. I also learn best by seeing pictures and diagrams instead of actual text. I thought I would be more of a sensing learner, but according to this, I am not.