Monday, September 26, 2016
Sunday, September 18, 2016
#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.
#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.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
#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.
#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.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
#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.
#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.
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