#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.

Join URL: https://edmo.do/j/84k7ng
Group Code: wsrf67

#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.