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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Blog Post 3
Peer editing is a teaching technique in which students read, and comment on each other's written work. Peer editing is always done between people who are the same age. In the video, What Is Peer Editing?, and the powerpoint Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial, the authors point out helpful tips to a great peer review. One of the most important ways to peer edit effectively is to follow these three steps:
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Blog Post 2
Mr. Dancealot
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The YouTube video Mr. Dancealot portrays a significant central message of not being able to learn without a hands on experience. I came to the conclusion with the fact that all the students' professor did was lecture. He talked and talked all about the facts of these dances but never put those facts to use. He never let the students get up to try the step coordinates he showed on his powerpoints. Instead of going over the steps the students were sleeping and twiddling their fingers in their seats. I do not agree with his conclusion that they should be able to dance by the time the final came around due to the fact all the experience they had was taking notes. You cannot dance with a notebook if it is your first time. You must practice those dances because practice makes perfect.
Teaching in the 21st Century
What does it mean to teach in the 21st century? Kevin Roberts thinks it revolves around being engaged in the classroom. Engagement is key because it leads to problem solving, which is learning. Engaging in learning is passive and leads to solving problems, which once again leads to learning. It also requires more relevance, which is critical to learning. He says it is all about "meaningful and powerful engagement?. That is how you learn with technology.
Teaching in the 21st century gives learning a whole new spin. You can share everything via Facebook, blogs, and podcasts. These technological advances allow the student to have self reflection on the work that they have completed which is one of the most positive aspects of technology. Self reflection gives the students a chance to see where they have room for improvement. Although Roberts has an overall good view of technology in the 21st century in education; however, there is a negative side to all of these advances. With technology comes copyright issues, students using slander in writing, and students plagiarizing. These things can be avoided if the student's are taught what not to do when using technology and it is reiterated. Roberts thinks that technology will give education a huge advance. It creates six ways for kids to learn better. Those six ways are: create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. Instead of teachers pushing out facts for memorization for a test and then the students forgetting this information, it forces students to engage in what is going on in the classroom and actually obtain the information. I agree with the way Kevin Roberts sees education changing. Just as technology is making an advance in schools, it is also making an advance in the world. So, we adapt and we use the technology to our advantage. I agree that a more technological way of education is beneficial. More kids these days use tablets to play learning games. Those kids are learning at a very young age with the technology the world offers today and they seem to get the hang of it! If Roberts is correct, it will greatly impact me as a teacher. Things will be much different than the way I learned when I was in elementary school. Everything will be technology based in the classrooms. I believe there will always be hands on technological learning devices in the classrooms for the students' use, such as computers, ipads, and game consoles. As for my use, chalkboards have gone to dry erase boards and then on to smart boards, so I should expect something of more high quality technology to come with the future. With new technology comes new things that you must adapt to and learn how to use. As a teacher, you can't teach with a smart board unless you know exactly how to use it, otherwise your students will probably be just as confused. In the long run, using technology in schools can help you students more than it would hurt them.
Networked Student
The Networked Student describes student's without teachers learning through networking with other students using the technology the world offers today. The video mainly states that students can accomplish their own work without guidance from a teacher. Students use networking to access lectures from experts at schools such as Berkeley. They also use Google Scholar which is a web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats. Using Google Scholar allows you so much access to educational books, articles, and documents. By looking up everything online, that is how they will learn. But why does the networked student even need a teacher? What if you did not have this technology on your own? How could you learn independently without the key source to all of this information? Students would need a teacher to help begin the process of creating this network. Teachers can also help provide learning opportunities that someone may not be able to do on their own. Teachers are there for the main purpose of guidance. How can you know the difference between right or wrong without a little help? You can also get guidance from online and networking; however, some sources give out false information. If you had a teacher, they could help you differentiate between good and bad information. They can teach you the respectful way to ask help from those experts that you have found using networking. Although networking is extremely useful, students will always need someone to turn to for educational and correct advice. That is where the teacher comes in; to help you maintain that network and instruct you to the future. My reaction is that is all makes sense for a networked student to not have a teacher, but what about the obstacles? Who will help you overcome them if you cannot do it on your own? In my opinion, thats where the teacher comes into place. For example, online courses are for the networked student, but it is never a bad thing to have a professor to call upon for help if you ever do need it.
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Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
In the video, Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts, the thesis is empowering students by making them learn. By giving the students new software and new terms that they have never seen before, it forces them to figure some things out for themselves. When the student's do figure it out independently it gives them a sense of empowerment. The author of Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts,Vicki Davis, even makes her students teach the class. This allows students to really learn the material correctly before presenting it to the whole class. There is nothing more satisfying than feeling accomplished with the work given to you. I think Davis has the right idea about harnessing students' digital smarts. She is teaching them how to learn and follow new trends with other people from all over the world. This is all very beneficial to the student. I really enjoyed her perspective on her methods and I couldn't agree more with her opinion. I hope to be able to teach my student's like that one day.
Flipping The Classroom
Flipping The Classroom is a informative video on the new innovative approach to classroom instruction. When I watch all of these videos I put myself as the teacher in an elementary level class. Flipping the classroom is extremely new to me on an elementary level, but it is not new to me on a college level. I doubt this will be very useful to me as a teacher because I don't expect a child below third grade to watch a video pertaining to the following days work. Although I do agree with homework being given out after instruction, class time is used specifically for instruction and that is how I plan to use it when I am a teacher myself.
The YouTube video Mr. Dancealot portrays a significant central message of not being able to learn without a hands on experience. I came to the conclusion with the fact that all the students' professor did was lecture. He talked and talked all about the facts of these dances but never put those facts to use. He never let the students get up to try the step coordinates he showed on his powerpoints. Instead of going over the steps the students were sleeping and twiddling their fingers in their seats. I do not agree with his conclusion that they should be able to dance by the time the final came around due to the fact all the experience they had was taking notes. You cannot dance with a notebook if it is your first time. You must practice those dances because practice makes perfect.
Teaching in the 21st Century
What does it mean to teach in the 21st century? Kevin Roberts thinks it revolves around being engaged in the classroom. Engagement is key because it leads to problem solving, which is learning. Engaging in learning is passive and leads to solving problems, which once again leads to learning. It also requires more relevance, which is critical to learning. He says it is all about "meaningful and powerful engagement?. That is how you learn with technology.
Teaching in the 21st century gives learning a whole new spin. You can share everything via Facebook, blogs, and podcasts. These technological advances allow the student to have self reflection on the work that they have completed which is one of the most positive aspects of technology. Self reflection gives the students a chance to see where they have room for improvement. Although Roberts has an overall good view of technology in the 21st century in education; however, there is a negative side to all of these advances. With technology comes copyright issues, students using slander in writing, and students plagiarizing. These things can be avoided if the student's are taught what not to do when using technology and it is reiterated. Roberts thinks that technology will give education a huge advance. It creates six ways for kids to learn better. Those six ways are: create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. Instead of teachers pushing out facts for memorization for a test and then the students forgetting this information, it forces students to engage in what is going on in the classroom and actually obtain the information. I agree with the way Kevin Roberts sees education changing. Just as technology is making an advance in schools, it is also making an advance in the world. So, we adapt and we use the technology to our advantage. I agree that a more technological way of education is beneficial. More kids these days use tablets to play learning games. Those kids are learning at a very young age with the technology the world offers today and they seem to get the hang of it! If Roberts is correct, it will greatly impact me as a teacher. Things will be much different than the way I learned when I was in elementary school. Everything will be technology based in the classrooms. I believe there will always be hands on technological learning devices in the classrooms for the students' use, such as computers, ipads, and game consoles. As for my use, chalkboards have gone to dry erase boards and then on to smart boards, so I should expect something of more high quality technology to come with the future. With new technology comes new things that you must adapt to and learn how to use. As a teacher, you can't teach with a smart board unless you know exactly how to use it, otherwise your students will probably be just as confused. In the long run, using technology in schools can help you students more than it would hurt them.
Networked Student
The Networked Student describes student's without teachers learning through networking with other students using the technology the world offers today. The video mainly states that students can accomplish their own work without guidance from a teacher. Students use networking to access lectures from experts at schools such as Berkeley. They also use Google Scholar which is a web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats. Using Google Scholar allows you so much access to educational books, articles, and documents. By looking up everything online, that is how they will learn. But why does the networked student even need a teacher? What if you did not have this technology on your own? How could you learn independently without the key source to all of this information? Students would need a teacher to help begin the process of creating this network. Teachers can also help provide learning opportunities that someone may not be able to do on their own. Teachers are there for the main purpose of guidance. How can you know the difference between right or wrong without a little help? You can also get guidance from online and networking; however, some sources give out false information. If you had a teacher, they could help you differentiate between good and bad information. They can teach you the respectful way to ask help from those experts that you have found using networking. Although networking is extremely useful, students will always need someone to turn to for educational and correct advice. That is where the teacher comes in; to help you maintain that network and instruct you to the future. My reaction is that is all makes sense for a networked student to not have a teacher, but what about the obstacles? Who will help you overcome them if you cannot do it on your own? In my opinion, thats where the teacher comes into place. For example, online courses are for the networked student, but it is never a bad thing to have a professor to call upon for help if you ever do need it.
Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
In the video, Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts, the thesis is empowering students by making them learn. By giving the students new software and new terms that they have never seen before, it forces them to figure some things out for themselves. When the student's do figure it out independently it gives them a sense of empowerment. The author of Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts,Vicki Davis, even makes her students teach the class. This allows students to really learn the material correctly before presenting it to the whole class. There is nothing more satisfying than feeling accomplished with the work given to you. I think Davis has the right idea about harnessing students' digital smarts. She is teaching them how to learn and follow new trends with other people from all over the world. This is all very beneficial to the student. I really enjoyed her perspective on her methods and I couldn't agree more with her opinion. I hope to be able to teach my student's like that one day.
Flipping The Classroom
Flipping The Classroom is a informative video on the new innovative approach to classroom instruction. When I watch all of these videos I put myself as the teacher in an elementary level class. Flipping the classroom is extremely new to me on an elementary level, but it is not new to me on a college level. I doubt this will be very useful to me as a teacher because I don't expect a child below third grade to watch a video pertaining to the following days work. Although I do agree with homework being given out after instruction, class time is used specifically for instruction and that is how I plan to use it when I am a teacher myself.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Blog Post 1
EDM310 turned out to be very different than what I had heard about this class. I had heard that you normally do not have to stay the whole two and a half hours. Although we did stay the whole time on the first day of class, I would have felt even more behind if I had missed the information taught. The Rate My Professor website gave me the idea that this class will require a lot of effort at home, away from the classroom. Right it was! I expect to be working my butt off to achieve my teachers requirements in this course. Despite the large work load, I've heard from many students that it is a rewarding class to have taken. In the end, you finish being more knowledgeable about micro computing systems in education.
Initially my fears for this class are overwhelming and we have only had the class once. Everything thrown at you has me scared out of my wits that I'm in over my head. Having so many assignments makes me afraid that I will overlook an assignment and it will be too late to turn it in or do it right properly. Another fear I have is them changing something on the blog post instructions or the project instructions and me not knowing. All of these fears fall under the number one fear of not passing the class because I can not afford to be any more behind than I already am.
EDM310 is not like any other class I have taken. Other than my past computer classes, I have never taken a course that was predominantly computer based other than online classes. EDM310 is seventy-five percent computer based and twenty-five percent based in the classroom. Graduate students helping teaching the class doesn't bother me because I had several of those at the University of Alabama. I also took a class at UA where we used blogging and computers to teach students, which I find very similar to this course. Even though this class requires good time management, I think that will be the most difficult thing for me. I don't want to put everything I have got into this class and fail my other five classes. So it looks like I need to get better at time management pretty quick. But in order to help I've tried to plan out days to specifically work on these assignments way before they are due. I also made a point to make sure the due date is very visible and I see it more than three times a day.
I feel like I will always be having questions in this class, but what better way to handle that than to ask away! I'm going to take this class day by day and assignment by assignment. I'm also going to remember to take deep breaths! I have not yet received the email on the project due dates, but I am curious as to when the first one is due. I would like to know how all these skills can be used in the elementary education field. I'm sure there are ways I know nothing about. I can't wait to continue and learn with this course!
Initially my fears for this class are overwhelming and we have only had the class once. Everything thrown at you has me scared out of my wits that I'm in over my head. Having so many assignments makes me afraid that I will overlook an assignment and it will be too late to turn it in or do it right properly. Another fear I have is them changing something on the blog post instructions or the project instructions and me not knowing. All of these fears fall under the number one fear of not passing the class because I can not afford to be any more behind than I already am.
EDM310 is not like any other class I have taken. Other than my past computer classes, I have never taken a course that was predominantly computer based other than online classes. EDM310 is seventy-five percent computer based and twenty-five percent based in the classroom. Graduate students helping teaching the class doesn't bother me because I had several of those at the University of Alabama. I also took a class at UA where we used blogging and computers to teach students, which I find very similar to this course. Even though this class requires good time management, I think that will be the most difficult thing for me. I don't want to put everything I have got into this class and fail my other five classes. So it looks like I need to get better at time management pretty quick. But in order to help I've tried to plan out days to specifically work on these assignments way before they are due. I also made a point to make sure the due date is very visible and I see it more than three times a day.
I feel like I will always be having questions in this class, but what better way to handle that than to ask away! I'm going to take this class day by day and assignment by assignment. I'm also going to remember to take deep breaths! I have not yet received the email on the project due dates, but I am curious as to when the first one is due. I would like to know how all these skills can be used in the elementary education field. I'm sure there are ways I know nothing about. I can't wait to continue and learn with this course!
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Practice Blog Post
My name is Emma and I've been a student for what seems like forever. I have lived all over the United States in some places like Louisiana, North Carolina, and Hawaii. I love horses and horseback riding, along with reading books, and the thought of going to Greece one day. Those are two things I really love to do when I have some down time. I ended up at the University of South Alabama after deciding that the University of Alabama was not for me. Louisiana State University is where I would much rather be because that is my mom's, brother's, and cousins alma mater and my whole family roots for the LSU tigers!
I've entered the field of education to inspire young kids who don't know what to strive for just yet. Which is one of the main reasons I would like to teach kids in the third grade and below. The kids are so innocent in life and what better way to help them than to guide them.
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I've entered the field of education to inspire young kids who don't know what to strive for just yet. Which is one of the main reasons I would like to teach kids in the third grade and below. The kids are so innocent in life and what better way to help them than to guide them.
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