Blog #3 is due June 28, 2012. This blog entry will focus on what
you have learned in this course, how your project experience has helped
you, how you see technology being used in your own classroom, what your
future plans are for technology in your teaching, and what outstanding
issues or questions you think need to be addressed as you continue to
learn about and use technology. Use this blog to explore the future of
educational technology in your own professional life
Man this class has gone by so quickly. Being one of the people who can navigate facebook and basic computer technology, I have learned so much through this class.
As far as the technology in the future technology use, It is all up hill from where I am. I hope to continue using technology such as twitter to keep updated with certain ed tech new and happenings to make my self a better teacher. I plan to experiment more with prezi and use prezi to add pazaz to presentations to engage students learning. I would like to explore more with audacity and video. I could record lectures and post them so students can review material at home. I explained in my final project how webquests can facilitate creative projects which can explore subject further than straight research. Nearly everything in this class can help me in my future class. Since I don't have a classroom, I feel I have the freedom to change habits now and learn new technology before I become a teacher. Other teachers have the restraints of time, and habit of how they are currently teaching. One of my constraints will be getting into the technology mindset and using it in everyday to feel comfortable using it professionally. I have at least two years before I become a teacher to think about technology and what objective to I ultimately want the the students to learn. One thing which Paula talked about that hit home is the concept of flexibility in learning. I have experienced with teaching in the pool and being flexible with teaching skills in the water, out of the water, physically moving their arms, and sometimes drawing on the boards. I think incorporating technology really allows the teacher to use universal design and level the playing field with LD student. I am eager to use the skills i know from teaching in the pool to skills with computers and other technology in the classroom.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Blog entry # 2 In this entry, you will summarize your curricular integration project plans for the class, identify what you’ll need to complete the project, identify what you hope to learn by doing the project, and provide a discussion of how you can connect what you learn and do on the class project to your own teaching practices. An important theme of this blog entry should be how your project connects to your classroom and teaching practices.
My CIP is a webquest which 5th grade students can learn about the Human body and its systems. The students will need to research the body's system and create a project about a particular system they chose. Students projects could be a presentation using power point,3d- model, video, or a skit. They will be working with groups of 6 to complete this project. Resources needed for the project will be access to a computer lab for research time and if they choose to do a power point presentation. If the student chooses to do a movie, they will need access to a recording device as well as basic editing on the computer.
Right now, since I do not have a classroom and have not developed a teaching strategy, I hope to learn how webquests can be integrated into the lesson plans. Also, how the lesson plan is set up to be user friendly toward the students so they can maximize their time within the lab. This project is teaching me all the integral parts associated with planning lessons and what standard they are meeting. In the future, I hope to use this webquest and others in my classroom. Depending on which grade and future resources available, i hope to have technology like this available to my students.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Blog Activity #1
The following questions should be addressed in this first entry: (1) what do you hope to gain and learn by taking this class? (2) what experiences do you bring to the class from your own use of technology? (3) what kind of technology integration project would you like to work on in this class? (4) how will what you learn and do in this class connect to what you are doing in your own classroom?
1) By taking this class, I hope to gain knowledge of how to integrate technology appropiately within the classroom. I don't use technology as much as others, and I would like to feel comfortable with technology to teach with it in the classroom. In reference to the article summary that Sean Lancaster posted, teachers refer back to old stuff when they are unfamiliar with new technology. I do not want to be that teacher. Technology offers cool applications for the students to maximize their learning.
2) I don't have much knowledge with technology. I choose not to have a smart phone or devices of the like. I work in a hospital at this moment and have close to none experience with technology within a classroom. I hope to integrate the skills and mindset which I use with medical charting into classroom. I had some experience with a mathematics program called Maple in college. This program allowed us to graph functions and equations and visually see the how that function was portrayed and interacted with others functions. This program had to have a bit of computer programming knowledge to operate, but if this was simplified for the elementary child to understand, I believe this tool could be incorporated into the classroom to help students solve mathematics.
3) As explained in question two, I hope to see ways that technology and math could be merged so the student who gets so frustrated with mathematics can understand what is being taught and why this area is important in real life. However, a program of such needs to be user friendly as well. I missed important concepts when learning maple because of frustration associated with programming the functions. It took me twice as long to learn the software, and thus functions that could be solved in five minutes using this software usually took 3 times longer to do by hand. I do not want students to give up on mathematics because they could not use the program.
4) In my future classroom, I hope to explore technology and it uses to explain concepts easier and integrate the old way along with the new ways of technology. I hope to open my mind up to technology and hope the students have an open mind about trying different ways of learning.
The following questions should be addressed in this first entry: (1) what do you hope to gain and learn by taking this class? (2) what experiences do you bring to the class from your own use of technology? (3) what kind of technology integration project would you like to work on in this class? (4) how will what you learn and do in this class connect to what you are doing in your own classroom?
1) By taking this class, I hope to gain knowledge of how to integrate technology appropiately within the classroom. I don't use technology as much as others, and I would like to feel comfortable with technology to teach with it in the classroom. In reference to the article summary that Sean Lancaster posted, teachers refer back to old stuff when they are unfamiliar with new technology. I do not want to be that teacher. Technology offers cool applications for the students to maximize their learning.
2) I don't have much knowledge with technology. I choose not to have a smart phone or devices of the like. I work in a hospital at this moment and have close to none experience with technology within a classroom. I hope to integrate the skills and mindset which I use with medical charting into classroom. I had some experience with a mathematics program called Maple in college. This program allowed us to graph functions and equations and visually see the how that function was portrayed and interacted with others functions. This program had to have a bit of computer programming knowledge to operate, but if this was simplified for the elementary child to understand, I believe this tool could be incorporated into the classroom to help students solve mathematics.
3) As explained in question two, I hope to see ways that technology and math could be merged so the student who gets so frustrated with mathematics can understand what is being taught and why this area is important in real life. However, a program of such needs to be user friendly as well. I missed important concepts when learning maple because of frustration associated with programming the functions. It took me twice as long to learn the software, and thus functions that could be solved in five minutes using this software usually took 3 times longer to do by hand. I do not want students to give up on mathematics because they could not use the program.
4) In my future classroom, I hope to explore technology and it uses to explain concepts easier and integrate the old way along with the new ways of technology. I hope to open my mind up to technology and hope the students have an open mind about trying different ways of learning.
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