Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Biography
My name is Michelle Garner, go to school part time and work full time at the Naples Zoo. I am going to school for education I want to become a teacher and teach middle school 7th or 8th grade language arts. I am engaged to my boyfriend of 3 years looking for a house right now. If I could travel anywhere I would love to go to Australia and see the zoo that Steve Irwin worked at. I am hoping when and if I get the chance to go I can shop until I drop. After reading other peoples post from other countries made me want to travel even more.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Chapter 4
Focus Question:How can teachers integrate technology into their work as educators?
In the book it gave three examples 1. Classroom instructions, 2. outside the classroom activities and 3 inside and outside the classroom learning activities for students. When they were speaking about giving different ways for them to get the information they need. Power points, research engines, textbooks online are a great help as well. So instead of buying all of the books for the class you can work with a code online in order for them to read the book on their own if they wanted.
Tech Tool: NETS this web site was interesting to go through. This place is the standards for learning, teaching and leading into the new digital age. It has ways of helping the teachers and students and parents learn how to deal with the improving technology every day. They have programs that can help show you how to bring technology into the classroom.'
Chapter Summary: This chapter was finally helpful because the beginning chapters were all about how you should bring the digital world into the classroom and how it can help. Chapter four was giving examples on some tools that we can use as teachers. And was showing how they are helpful and how you can figure out how to use it. It spoke about the different levels of teachers and their exposure to technology and Inclusion and Infusion. Those two words help describe the different levels on how you can use technology everyday (infusion) compared to only when needed (inclusion).
In the book it gave three examples 1. Classroom instructions, 2. outside the classroom activities and 3 inside and outside the classroom learning activities for students. When they were speaking about giving different ways for them to get the information they need. Power points, research engines, textbooks online are a great help as well. So instead of buying all of the books for the class you can work with a code online in order for them to read the book on their own if they wanted.
Tech Tool: NETS this web site was interesting to go through. This place is the standards for learning, teaching and leading into the new digital age. It has ways of helping the teachers and students and parents learn how to deal with the improving technology every day. They have programs that can help show you how to bring technology into the classroom.'
Chapter Summary: This chapter was finally helpful because the beginning chapters were all about how you should bring the digital world into the classroom and how it can help. Chapter four was giving examples on some tools that we can use as teachers. And was showing how they are helpful and how you can figure out how to use it. It spoke about the different levels of teachers and their exposure to technology and Inclusion and Infusion. Those two words help describe the different levels on how you can use technology everyday (infusion) compared to only when needed (inclusion).
Chapter 3 Post
Focus Question: How can teachers evaluate and assess their students?
Assessing students takes not just one class but the whole year. For the "norm" of how to assess the students is by using multiple-choice and short answer tests, essays and other written tasks. (Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) But their are some tools that help assess and evaluate such as : Electronic tests and quizzes, Digital Portfolios and Online Surveys and ect. ((Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) Using these tools is not only going to change how we can help students but a different way to read them. The normal way of grading them on a scale are FCAT and ect they are so use to this their is no where for creativity.
Tech Tool: PBS Teachers was a lot more helpful then I would have thought. Since I want to go into middle school Language arts they actually had a section for me and I could explore lesson plans, videos and more creative ideas for teaching. This one lesson plan was I thought very unique it gets the students thinking and moving To get up and Move
Chapter Summary : This chapter seemed to me a start of explaining how lesson plans come together and how teachers assess and evaluating, It does talk about the different types of assessment and how you don't have to use just the normal and what is given to you. It brings in using technology in Performance Assessment and the Student Performance Rubrics. One thing I loved about this chapter is that it does offer a good amount of help and tips in order to bring your class some creativity with using technology and creating rubrics.
Assessing students takes not just one class but the whole year. For the "norm" of how to assess the students is by using multiple-choice and short answer tests, essays and other written tasks. (Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) But their are some tools that help assess and evaluate such as : Electronic tests and quizzes, Digital Portfolios and Online Surveys and ect. ((Maloy Robert, Verock-o'Loughlin Ruth, Edwards Sharon, Woolf Beverly.Transforming Learning with New Technologies.20011 Pearson Education,Inc., publishing as Allyn and Bacon.) Using these tools is not only going to change how we can help students but a different way to read them. The normal way of grading them on a scale are FCAT and ect they are so use to this their is no where for creativity.
Tech Tool: PBS Teachers was a lot more helpful then I would have thought. Since I want to go into middle school Language arts they actually had a section for me and I could explore lesson plans, videos and more creative ideas for teaching. This one lesson plan was I thought very unique it gets the students thinking and moving To get up and Move
Chapter Summary : This chapter seemed to me a start of explaining how lesson plans come together and how teachers assess and evaluating, It does talk about the different types of assessment and how you don't have to use just the normal and what is given to you. It brings in using technology in Performance Assessment and the Student Performance Rubrics. One thing I loved about this chapter is that it does offer a good amount of help and tips in order to bring your class some creativity with using technology and creating rubrics.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Michelle's 2nd Post chapter 2
Focus question: How do students use technology for learning visually? It helps a lot for children who are visual learners. By providing them online simulations, real time data displays and analysis, online video clips and streaming video and vodcasts. (Maloy Robert,O'Loughln Ruth,Edwards Sharon,Woolf Beverly, 2011 Pearson Education, Inc, publishing as Allyn and Bacon) It helps the students who are also hands on and that need the visual in order to plug those two together they are able to be apart of the research and being able to see it right in front of them.
For the tech tool: http://visual.merriam-webster.com It was very helpful since I want to be able to go into Language Arts, its nice to be able to use this for kids who are more visual and can connect harder words to images in order to understand it better. They will be able to use this on their own and it will help out with essay for my class and FCAT they will be able to expand their vocabulary.
This chapter summary: For chapter two it was answering the more famous question "How can technology help my student or child wont it just enable them?" People are asked this all the time especailly teachers because parents are concerned that their kid wont learn if they can find it with just one click. I wasn't so sure myself but it helps the students put the learning in their hands, they can research and find the answers on their own. You can create games and have them use competition who can find the answer the quickest or have them create a test for each other. Not only does it help the students but the teachers as well for lesson planning, student record keeping and if they are a online teacher great for that as well.
For the tech tool: http://visual.merriam-webster.com It was very helpful since I want to be able to go into Language Arts, its nice to be able to use this for kids who are more visual and can connect harder words to images in order to understand it better. They will be able to use this on their own and it will help out with essay for my class and FCAT they will be able to expand their vocabulary.
This chapter summary: For chapter two it was answering the more famous question "How can technology help my student or child wont it just enable them?" People are asked this all the time especailly teachers because parents are concerned that their kid wont learn if they can find it with just one click. I wasn't so sure myself but it helps the students put the learning in their hands, they can research and find the answers on their own. You can create games and have them use competition who can find the answer the quickest or have them create a test for each other. Not only does it help the students but the teachers as well for lesson planning, student record keeping and if they are a online teacher great for that as well.
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