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
Sunday, October 16, 2016
#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.
#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.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
#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.
#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.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
#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.
#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.
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.
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