Blog Post #5

Mrs. Venosdale is a passionate teacher who thought of what the school of her dreams might be like. If I had a chance to build my own school, it would be a place of open minded learning. We would still have structure and order, but the learning would be a little different than the traditional style of learning. There would be a set of classes that every student would need to take, but they would have more variety to choose from when it comes to electives. It would still be broken up into elementary, middle, and high school, but it would range from k-3, 4-8, then 9-12. Each set of grades would have their own building, with their own themes.

Things like virtual choir is the future of technology. It is truly amazing how people that have never met can make music when they don't even have to be in the same country. I have a feeling that more music will be made and produced like this.

One day, teachers will only be supervisors of learning. Classrooms of the future will be based on technology and teachers won't be phased out, but they won't be used as much. With the way technology is growing, teachers won't be needed as much as they have been in history.

I would definitely invest time in flipping my classroom. It's a more efficient way of teaching and learning because there is more time spent on learning than there is on delivery of the material. I plan on teaching my class this way. This way my students will learn the material in a more efficient way without slipping through the cracks. This is a very effective way to set up your classroom.

Blog Post #4

Podcasts are a very good way to help teach children a different way of learning. It has a more hands-on, creative outlook on learning instead of the same old lecture style learning. I like the way she took each student, one-on-one, and recorded them reading. It helps students step out of their comfort zones and be interactive with their classmates. I also like how Ms. Tolisano made booklets so the first-graders could follow along while listening. Then after listening, the students write down what they thought about the experience, which provides feedback to the teacher. Podcasts are a very useful tool in the classroom. I will be sure to use podcasts in the classroom because there are a lot of scholars that make podcasts that will be useful in my high school history classrooms. I can have them listen to it and write an essay on what they thought about the topic.

Blog Post #3

When i watched the videos about peer editing, I didn't know there was such an efficient way to edit people's work. I learned that there are three steps you follow to efficiently edit someones work: compliments,suggestions, and corrections. I always thought that it was just marking punctuation errors with red ink. These videos and slideshows helped me realize that peer editing is so much more than that. By following these three simple steps, you can peer edit someones work without dealing with things like bias and favoritism. That can play a big part in what you say while peer editing if you don't follow these steps.

The video "Writing Peer Review Top 10 mistakes" showed me that you have to be as neutral as possible while you're editing someone else's work. It showed me that you cant be too critical, but you can't be too relaxed either. You have to have a happy medium while you're peer editing. Another thing that this video showed me is that you have to actually care about peer editing if you want to do it right. You have to actually read what you're looking at, or else you won't be able to give suggestions.

I decided to comment on my person's blog out in the open, on the blog. It lets everyone know what's been pointed out and that if I missed something, they can point it out. It helps keep peer editing more efficient, so the person who wrote the blog doesn't hear the same thing over and over.

The Mountbatten is an incredible machine. It is really awesome how far technology has come to where people that are hearing impaired and visually impaired can learn right along with the other students. If I ever had the chance I would learn how to use one of these machines because I'm sure that in my career I will run across hearing or visually impaired kids. So it would be a very useful resource in teaching those kids.

The spectrum of education that deals with hearing and visually impaired people fascinates me. It's amazing how far we've come technologically so that we can help these kids learn with equal opportunities. Those kids deserve as many opportunities as the kids without impairments. There are many flaws in the education system, but the fact we have technologies that can help these kids learn, says a lot about how we are with special education.

I think that Ms. Davis and Dr. Strange are very similar in the way they teach. They both make their students learn on their own, rather than stand in the front of the class and lecture. The way these classrooms are run really builds a lot of character and teaches us to take initiative and that learning on our own is important because that's how reality works. These kind of classrooms are the future of education. It's inevitable. Were advancing too fast in technology to keep the education system the same way it's been the past century.