Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
PLN report
Using all of these resources in this class have really helped me learn for myself. Instead of having someone in front of the class lecturing about something, I have to take the initiative to learn on my own instead of barely paying attention to a teacher talking for an hour. Using Twitter to see how other people are using networks to their advantage has helped me a lot in seeing other people's point of view, so I don't feel so strange.
Blog Post #14
CourseSmart has come up with a digital textbook. This allows teachers to track what a student has read and the main concepts the teacher has covered. One problem that they have faced is that the students would make decent grades, but then the teacher would look at the textbook tracking and the student will have only opened the book once. One other issue is that the software wouldn't work some of the time. The teacher realized that the students would still make decent grades without opening the book very much. She was extremely confused by how that worked.
I would wonder how some students would do well on my tests without opening the book very much. I would have some questions if the student was regularly reading, but not doing well on the tests. It would make me think they were just opening the book and not actively reading it.
I would not like this if this were a part of my schooling. Were college students. We don't need someone hovering over us to make sure were doing our readings. That's the whole point of college, is to learn how to do your work on your own and not to have someone holding your hand throughout the whole process.
I would ask the teacher if the grades improved significantly throughout this process.
I would ask the students if they had any freedom in this class.
I would agree with a few of the comments left on there. I don't agree with this type of classroom.
I would wonder how some students would do well on my tests without opening the book very much. I would have some questions if the student was regularly reading, but not doing well on the tests. It would make me think they were just opening the book and not actively reading it.
I would not like this if this were a part of my schooling. Were college students. We don't need someone hovering over us to make sure were doing our readings. That's the whole point of college, is to learn how to do your work on your own and not to have someone holding your hand throughout the whole process.
I would ask the teacher if the grades improved significantly throughout this process.
I would ask the students if they had any freedom in this class.
I would agree with a few of the comments left on there. I don't agree with this type of classroom.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Blog Post #13
1. Mr. Crosby shows in this video that learning can be fun and easy. By using a lot of hands on activities, he showed the students that learning doesn't have to be boring. The hot air balloon activity is a good example of a hands on activity that will entertain and teach the students at the same time. I like how he uses blogs as an interactive way for students to discuss what they learned in class. I hope I'm able to use blogs in my classroom so my students will have a different way to discuss topics that doesn't take up unnecessary class time.
2. The Blended Learning Cycle is online, classroom, and mobile learning all blended together. The cycle it all goes through is engaging, exploring, expanding, explaining and evaluating. Paul Anderson uses this a lot in his classrooms. He asks the students a question and they answer it through the means that he tells them. After that, they look at a video. The video is a great reference for the students to look back on. He then assigns a reading about the topic. Next is review. Review gives him an idea on where the students stand when it comes to subject matter. Mr. Anderson likes to run his classroom like I like coach. I call it "perfection before progression." This means the students can't move on until they understand what they're doing completely in that subject. The final step is a summary test that test them on everything they have learned. I like the way this classroom is set up. One of the main things I like is that the students don't move on to the next subject until they understand the topic they're on.
2. The Blended Learning Cycle is online, classroom, and mobile learning all blended together. The cycle it all goes through is engaging, exploring, expanding, explaining and evaluating. Paul Anderson uses this a lot in his classrooms. He asks the students a question and they answer it through the means that he tells them. After that, they look at a video. The video is a great reference for the students to look back on. He then assigns a reading about the topic. Next is review. Review gives him an idea on where the students stand when it comes to subject matter. Mr. Anderson likes to run his classroom like I like coach. I call it "perfection before progression." This means the students can't move on until they understand what they're doing completely in that subject. The final step is a summary test that test them on everything they have learned. I like the way this classroom is set up. One of the main things I like is that the students don't move on to the next subject until they understand the topic they're on.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Blog post #12
1. Watch "Teaching History using Virtual Classrooms in Buckinghamshire."
How would you use Virtual Classroom in your own classroom? In what ways are your ways similar to those of Sarah Gould?
I would use Virtual Classroom to share certain documents in history with my students. Virtual Classroom is a good way for the students to be interactive and chat amongst one another that's not unorganized group work. It's also a good way to save paper. When I was in high school my history teachers would want us to look at certain documents or a few pages out of a book, so they would go to the copy machine and print off over 100 copies to give to us. I would look at it maybe one time and throw it away, or put it in my folder with all the other papers I looked at once. Virtual classroom eliminates a lot of those problems. You don't have to go through the trouble of making copies of all these documents, and it prevents clutter. Another great thing about it is that any student can go online whenever they want and look at it.
I like how Sarah Gould uses Virtual Classroom to share certain documents to her classroom. I would probably split them into groups of two like she did so they are not only learning history, they're learning social skills as well.
How would you use Virtual Classroom in your own classroom? In what ways are your ways similar to those of Sarah Gould?
I would use Virtual Classroom to share certain documents in history with my students. Virtual Classroom is a good way for the students to be interactive and chat amongst one another that's not unorganized group work. It's also a good way to save paper. When I was in high school my history teachers would want us to look at certain documents or a few pages out of a book, so they would go to the copy machine and print off over 100 copies to give to us. I would look at it maybe one time and throw it away, or put it in my folder with all the other papers I looked at once. Virtual classroom eliminates a lot of those problems. You don't have to go through the trouble of making copies of all these documents, and it prevents clutter. Another great thing about it is that any student can go online whenever they want and look at it.
I like how Sarah Gould uses Virtual Classroom to share certain documents to her classroom. I would probably split them into groups of two like she did so they are not only learning history, they're learning social skills as well.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
C4K summary
Nate F
Nate F posted a blog about his dog and how much she loved her dog. I commented and said that I would love to see pictures of his dog.
Maggie
She posted a blog on cyber bullying and how it was completely wrong.
Alex M He posted a blog about himself to blog to Russian students. I commented and agreed with him that it would be interesting to live in Russia because it is probably a completely different world compared to the United States.
Nate F posted a blog about his dog and how much she loved her dog. I commented and said that I would love to see pictures of his dog.
Maggie
She posted a blog on cyber bullying and how it was completely wrong.
Alex M He posted a blog about himself to blog to Russian students. I commented and agreed with him that it would be interesting to live in Russia because it is probably a completely different world compared to the United States.
Blog post #11
The first video we watched was about how first graders utilize and learn from technology. They're learning more and more on how to use the internet and how to blog effectively. They, like the students in EDM 310 also use smartboards as an effective tool for learning. They use wikipedia as a source for information regularly. Skype is something they use that is very interactive among them and their peers. I like the use of technology in the classroom, however, I wouldn't want it to replace the teacher. Technology is growing faster than we can keep up, but there still needs to be a teacher in the classroom while the students are learning. I believe in the use of technology in the classroom as a tool to help the kids learn, but the students need a teacher to teach and guide them through everything. After all, teachers aren't only teaching material, they're teaching life lessons and how to apply them to every day life.
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