1st Post Summary
In this project, I created my very own PLN. I used the website Symbaloo which is were you add different sites or apps that are all on one page. For my page, I added a couple of my social networks such as Facebook, and Twitter. I added the different sites I use for my EDM310 class so that I have all the websites that I use for this class. My PLN is great to help me keep up with my class and have everything at my fingertips.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
C4KSummary for February
Justin
For my C4K assignment, I had Justin in a 9th Grade World History class. He wrote a blog on setting goals, and how to accomplish your goals. He had a 6 step process to accomplishing goals. The example he used is the idea of losing weight. The blog is summarized like this. The 1st step is coming to the idea to look better. The 2nd step is being more specific with your idea, such as losing weight. The 3rd step is making your goal possible or measurable, such as "I want to lose 10 kg." The 4th step is making your goal achievable by making small steps to achieve your goal. The 5th goal is making your goal realistic by considering you time, family, resources, and finances. Finishing the goal we need to give ourselves a time frame with a start and finish date.
I agreed with him on his ideas and steps but I made a few suggestions to him by making the goals we choose push our limits a little. One way we could do this is by adding a few more pounds or making a shorter time frame. We wouldn't want to push our limits too far to where we quit it before we finish.
J Denver
For this weeks C4K, I commented on J. Denver's blog about a friend of his named Liam. It was a short blog, after reading others he has wrote I understood that he has taken a liking to blogging. So during my comment, I told him that it was very interesting that he has likes to blog so much. The thing is though that he needs to write a little more explaining his friend more. I really tried to encouraged him to continue blogging though.
Room 6 Paikea and Skye
For this weeks post, I had to leave a comment for Paikea and Skye from New Zealand on their Little Voices, Little Scholars page. I just commented and told them both to keep up the good work and that I hoped to see more posts from them. For the entire class, I told them all to keep up the good work on their blog and that I would be hoping to see more blog posts from them all.
Amy For this weeks C4K assignment, I commented on Amy's from Mrs. Martin's 10th Grade English Class during 3rd block. Her blog post titled "Self-Expression", she talks about how she expresses herself. She can express herself through her style of dressing, and the way she writes. I told her to give more thorough examples in the way she expresses herself, such as what type of clothes would she wear to express her personality.
For my C4K assignment, I had Justin in a 9th Grade World History class. He wrote a blog on setting goals, and how to accomplish your goals. He had a 6 step process to accomplishing goals. The example he used is the idea of losing weight. The blog is summarized like this. The 1st step is coming to the idea to look better. The 2nd step is being more specific with your idea, such as losing weight. The 3rd step is making your goal possible or measurable, such as "I want to lose 10 kg." The 4th step is making your goal achievable by making small steps to achieve your goal. The 5th goal is making your goal realistic by considering you time, family, resources, and finances. Finishing the goal we need to give ourselves a time frame with a start and finish date.
I agreed with him on his ideas and steps but I made a few suggestions to him by making the goals we choose push our limits a little. One way we could do this is by adding a few more pounds or making a shorter time frame. We wouldn't want to push our limits too far to where we quit it before we finish.
J Denver
For this weeks C4K, I commented on J. Denver's blog about a friend of his named Liam. It was a short blog, after reading others he has wrote I understood that he has taken a liking to blogging. So during my comment, I told him that it was very interesting that he has likes to blog so much. The thing is though that he needs to write a little more explaining his friend more. I really tried to encouraged him to continue blogging though.
Room 6 Paikea and Skye
For this weeks post, I had to leave a comment for Paikea and Skye from New Zealand on their Little Voices, Little Scholars page. I just commented and told them both to keep up the good work and that I hoped to see more posts from them. For the entire class, I told them all to keep up the good work on their blog and that I would be hoping to see more blog posts from them all.
Amy For this weeks C4K assignment, I commented on Amy's from Mrs. Martin's 10th Grade English Class during 3rd block. Her blog post titled "Self-Expression", she talks about how she expresses herself. She can express herself through her style of dressing, and the way she writes. I told her to give more thorough examples in the way she expresses herself, such as what type of clothes would she wear to express her personality.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Blog Post #6
Why Do We Need Teachers?
In the video, The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler, it goes through a "story" of a young man who is writing a paper on the subject of American Psyche. It goes through the steps of him finding good quality information that is credited and shows ways that he can get different opinions through other students blogs, and teachers blogs. He learned that the blogs can usually tell peoples opinions about American Psyche. There were a few things that the student did to show others where he acquired information about this subject through sites like delicious, and dingo. He found different recordings and videos from professional teachers that have information about the American Psyche. He used Skype in one section to have a video conference with a professional on the subject also.
The real question about this video is "Why Do We Need Teachers?" As I watched the first part of the video, I never heard him say the teacher taught him this or that. He used his knowledge of the internet to find all this this information. This doesn't mean that he doesn't need a teacher. She is the one who offers him guidance when he gets stuck, shows him how to communicate properly and ask respectively for information from others, shows him how to know the difference between good and bad information, and so on. So really all this wouldn't be possible unless a teacher had informed him on how to use the internet or how to find things on the internet. This kind of stuff isn't given to you through genetics.
So I guess my argument is that teachers are the root of all knowledge that students have. I mean they can't just go out and eat books and know how to do things. They have to be taught to give them a start on how to learn. Some teachers such as Dr. Strange, are teaching students to learn on their own. They give them different sites and different projects to learn mistakes and to teach them how to learn and find information. So I guess my answer to the question, "Why do we even need teachers?", is Heck Yes You DO! We must always be there to keep them on the right track and keep them doing their learning properly.
7th Graders PLN
In this video, a young girl is talking about how she uses technology to do school work for her classes. She goes through how she finds information and posts to her blog and different social networks. The things she does is awesome, and would be a blast to do with teachers that you technology to teach class. The only thing is is getting computers, and internet to kids. I know that we are in the 21st century, but not everyone has a smart phone, internet, and even computers. Also, the grade level I am going to school to teach is probably not literate enough in technology to know how to use the computer. So my question about this blog is "If they all do have computers, are they all going to know how to use this technology?"
Project #10
Filamentality
I searched the internet for useful knowledge tools and found a site called Filamentality. On this site you are able to create and search different topics on which you are looking for. Filamentality combines the "filaments of the web" with your "mentality" allowing you to create a variety of formats that meet your personal or learner needs. According to the website, this tool can be used by teacher, a student, a media specialist / librarian, or a trainers. The website also has FAQs, and ways that you can add your own web pages. There are tons of ways that you can find information on this page and ways you can create information for other people. I chose this site because of the ways that you can learn from others blogs and communicate with others. You can click on Filamentality to find the website to start.
I searched the internet for useful knowledge tools and found a site called Filamentality. On this site you are able to create and search different topics on which you are looking for. Filamentality combines the "filaments of the web" with your "mentality" allowing you to create a variety of formats that meet your personal or learner needs. According to the website, this tool can be used by teacher, a student, a media specialist / librarian, or a trainers. The website also has FAQs, and ways that you can add your own web pages. There are tons of ways that you can find information on this page and ways you can create information for other people. I chose this site because of the ways that you can learn from others blogs and communicate with others. You can click on Filamentality to find the website to start.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Blog Post #5
If I Built A School
In Krissey Venosdale's "If I Built A School," she starts out with how she would love to create her own school. She starts out with the baseline for school, the motto "Welcome: Now Entering an Innovation Zone." She states that it would be a neon sign that innovation would stand out more than the other words. She done this to say that the kids better know when they get there they better get ready for some change in knowledge and their lives. She goes on to explain how she wants it to be "oozing" with creativity. ONe major factor in this blog is the curriculum she wants for her school. She wants it to loose to run wild, but she wants this to let her kids explore what they want to do in life. She wants them to dig deep in their future careers and find out what they love and what keeps them interested. She showed her care for the community by putting a large whiteboard to allow people and parents from the community to say thank you or have ideas for the school. One of the last two things she really talks about is how she would put an aquarium for the kids to explore and those who want to know about marine biology could learn from watching and pondering about the fish. Lastly she says one thing that every kid in America would love to hear and that is no STATE TEST!!!! She wants the kids to be there to learn and read about things and truly love what they are learning about and remember that information forever.
All of this is good and I love her ideas, but I would do the school a little different. Well firstly, my sign on the front door would say, "If you don't want to learn, Stay HOME!" I know. It's kind of catchy, and I would probably not have any students. I think this would open their eyes to let them know when they come to my school they are going to learn. Then my school would set up in departments. For each department, I would have large building for every one of them. It would sort of be like a college, but each building would connect in a way to make it into one large school. The departments would "ooze" with information props (such as aquariums, physics labs, libraries and historical museum replicas.) In other words, each department would have hands on objects that you could look at and learn better. The curriculum would probably have the same outline as today's school curriculums.
Reaction to Virtual Choir
I just watched Eric Whitacker's Virtual Choir, and it was pretty awesome. I am amazed that the creator of this found out how to get the singers in unison like he did. The thing that puzzled me is that these people have never met in their entire life. You can say my reaction to the use of internet in this video is that it is amazing. This video does post a question in my mind. That question is how many times did they have to do this to get them in unison like they did? What if they had internet problems, how do they fix that? As amazed as I am with video, I am just concerned with the trial and error. This problem would be solved if they were all in just one place.
Teaching in the 21st
In the video teaching in the 21st Century, he put forward a point of the children teaching themselves through the internet. It had a lot of points that had google, twitter, facebook, and social networks that has a way of communication with people across the world. The kids would have the questions of everyday life, but they would rely on the internet to learn about them. They were the type of question that teachers could not answer for them. Well this video made me feel like in the future of teaching school, teachers would not be needed very much. The only type of teaching you would need is computer teachers, and others that taught about new technology.I guess I kind of over exaggerated the point of not needing teachers, but it means that everything would be online. Students would get their curriculum online and follow guidelines to learn the things they needed to know for their grade. Eventually, the only thing teachers would need to do is post the curriculum, and just be there for simple questions. So I guess in my near future that I am going to learn more about technology and how to use it.
In Krissey Venosdale's "If I Built A School," she starts out with how she would love to create her own school. She starts out with the baseline for school, the motto "Welcome: Now Entering an Innovation Zone." She states that it would be a neon sign that innovation would stand out more than the other words. She done this to say that the kids better know when they get there they better get ready for some change in knowledge and their lives. She goes on to explain how she wants it to be "oozing" with creativity. ONe major factor in this blog is the curriculum she wants for her school. She wants it to loose to run wild, but she wants this to let her kids explore what they want to do in life. She wants them to dig deep in their future careers and find out what they love and what keeps them interested. She showed her care for the community by putting a large whiteboard to allow people and parents from the community to say thank you or have ideas for the school. One of the last two things she really talks about is how she would put an aquarium for the kids to explore and those who want to know about marine biology could learn from watching and pondering about the fish. Lastly she says one thing that every kid in America would love to hear and that is no STATE TEST!!!! She wants the kids to be there to learn and read about things and truly love what they are learning about and remember that information forever.
All of this is good and I love her ideas, but I would do the school a little different. Well firstly, my sign on the front door would say, "If you don't want to learn, Stay HOME!" I know. It's kind of catchy, and I would probably not have any students. I think this would open their eyes to let them know when they come to my school they are going to learn. Then my school would set up in departments. For each department, I would have large building for every one of them. It would sort of be like a college, but each building would connect in a way to make it into one large school. The departments would "ooze" with information props (such as aquariums, physics labs, libraries and historical museum replicas.) In other words, each department would have hands on objects that you could look at and learn better. The curriculum would probably have the same outline as today's school curriculums.
Reaction to Virtual Choir
I just watched Eric Whitacker's Virtual Choir, and it was pretty awesome. I am amazed that the creator of this found out how to get the singers in unison like he did. The thing that puzzled me is that these people have never met in their entire life. You can say my reaction to the use of internet in this video is that it is amazing. This video does post a question in my mind. That question is how many times did they have to do this to get them in unison like they did? What if they had internet problems, how do they fix that? As amazed as I am with video, I am just concerned with the trial and error. This problem would be solved if they were all in just one place.
Teaching in the 21st
In the video teaching in the 21st Century, he put forward a point of the children teaching themselves through the internet. It had a lot of points that had google, twitter, facebook, and social networks that has a way of communication with people across the world. The kids would have the questions of everyday life, but they would rely on the internet to learn about them. They were the type of question that teachers could not answer for them. Well this video made me feel like in the future of teaching school, teachers would not be needed very much. The only type of teaching you would need is computer teachers, and others that taught about new technology.I guess I kind of over exaggerated the point of not needing teachers, but it means that everything would be online. Students would get their curriculum online and follow guidelines to learn the things they needed to know for their grade. Eventually, the only thing teachers would need to do is post the curriculum, and just be there for simple questions. So I guess in my near future that I am going to learn more about technology and how to use it.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Special Blog Post #1
WolfranAlpha App
In the search on WolfranAlpha App I searched for the education comparison of China, India and the US. I found that even though China and India have more people than the US, the use has more people that go to college. The percentage of people that started out in primary school and went to college had a slower decline than both countries combined. This is a perfect example of how we can use this app to compare things for projects for our students or anyone we teach in the future. This would be a great app for group projects in all sorts of subjects.
The Count
After looking at the Count and seeing all the increases in sales on certain phones, youtube videos being watched or liked, Facebook statuses/pictures being liked, and etc. We can see here that the use of technology in everyday lives will never stop increasing in numbers, especially if new technology is being invented.
I believe that this increase in use of technology, will effect the way we learn new things to teach children. The way that we find information or learn new information. It would effect the use of a classroom through skype or other internet video chats. I think that peoples increase in knowledge about technology will make it to where we can have class through online streaming. We'll never have to leave our homes.
In the search on WolfranAlpha App I searched for the education comparison of China, India and the US. I found that even though China and India have more people than the US, the use has more people that go to college. The percentage of people that started out in primary school and went to college had a slower decline than both countries combined. This is a perfect example of how we can use this app to compare things for projects for our students or anyone we teach in the future. This would be a great app for group projects in all sorts of subjects.
The Count
After looking at the Count and seeing all the increases in sales on certain phones, youtube videos being watched or liked, Facebook statuses/pictures being liked, and etc. We can see here that the use of technology in everyday lives will never stop increasing in numbers, especially if new technology is being invented.
I believe that this increase in use of technology, will effect the way we learn new things to teach children. The way that we find information or learn new information. It would effect the use of a classroom through skype or other internet video chats. I think that peoples increase in knowledge about technology will make it to where we can have class through online streaming. We'll never have to leave our homes.
Friday, February 8, 2013
C4T #1
Marshmallow Building Teams
In this blog by Mark Hardeman, he has a group project in which teacher at his meetings use marshmallow and sticks to build things with. The reason for the marshmallow project is to help the teachers with their time management, team building, telling it's okay to make mistakes, learning from those mistakes, setting reachable goals, and to just have fun doing what they are doing. There were a few more things this project taught them, but I believe these will help them more with teaching and their future in teaching. I began to think about how this project would help students as well. I think it would help them with their communication, and doing a fair amount of work in the group their in.
In this blog by Mark Hardeman, he has a group project in which teacher at his meetings use marshmallow and sticks to build things with. The reason for the marshmallow project is to help the teachers with their time management, team building, telling it's okay to make mistakes, learning from those mistakes, setting reachable goals, and to just have fun doing what they are doing. There were a few more things this project taught them, but I believe these will help them more with teaching and their future in teaching. I began to think about how this project would help students as well. I think it would help them with their communication, and doing a fair amount of work in the group their in.
Blog Post #4
Podcasting
This blog on teaching with podcasting has inspired to me as a "teacher in learning" to learn by doing it themselves. One example during the blog was when the children actually made their own audio book to follow along with and to listen to the way they read to correct mistakes. There are so many different ways that you can use this to teach so many subjects from kindergarten to 12th grade. I believe that the way podcasting at an early age is teaching the kids to learn on their own on certain subjects. The best subject that podcasting would influence the best learning experience is the language classes. These would be classes like Spanish, French, and etc. They would be able to record there own voice and correct or see how they say different words in different languages.
This blog on teaching with podcasting has inspired to me as a "teacher in learning" to learn by doing it themselves. One example during the blog was when the children actually made their own audio book to follow along with and to listen to the way they read to correct mistakes. There are so many different ways that you can use this to teach so many subjects from kindergarten to 12th grade. I believe that the way podcasting at an early age is teaching the kids to learn on their own on certain subjects. The best subject that podcasting would influence the best learning experience is the language classes. These would be classes like Spanish, French, and etc. They would be able to record there own voice and correct or see how they say different words in different languages.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Blog Post #3
Peer Editing
After watching the video “What is Peer Editing” I began to realize that teachers use a similar format when grading papers I wrote in my past schooling. Also, I was happy because it was short and to the point. I realized that when we comment on our classmates blogs, that we should comment encouraging words as well as correctional suggestions. During the whole period, we still have to stay positive. It helped me realize that this whole time of commenting on other people’s blogs, that I’ve been doing it wrong the whole time.
I especially like the video with the children going over the steps in peer editing, and the many different ways that we or the person whose paper we edited react to peer editing. I’ve never seen or had people like Mean Margaret or some of the others when it comes to editing, but I’d imagine that there are people like them. I would rate myself as the one that didn’t really care about his paper or editing his partners, but that was in my past during high school. Now I care and try to stay positive when editing papers.
The Mountbatten
In this video, I learned something that shocked me, and it was that young children were teaching senior citizens who were impaired on how to use certain technology. I never realized the amount of technology that was out there to help the visually impaired and deaf. I always wondered how they made the braille also. This subject has really opened up my eyes on how to treat and help these types of people.
Teaching the Blind and Deaf
In these videos, I have really learned an issue that hardly ever is recognized. This is teaching the blind or visually impaired. I never really thought of learning math or algebra without having my vision. The video on teaching math to the blind really is focusing in on making certain jobs that require mathematics and knowledge available to them. I really believe that in the near future that levels of math higher than pre-algebra will be met and be available to the blind.
Some other issues that are shown in the last two videos are ways that the blind can learn on their own. One thing that technology has for the blind is from Apple’s Ipad. The Ipad can speak out loud what the person is touch or what app their finger is currently on. They can listen to eBooks and learn stories that are required for students in high school and college. The most impressive thing of all is that they can learn all this on their own.
Harness Your Student’s Smarts
In the video, Harness Your Student’s Smarts, there was a very good topic on children learning to teach themselves basically. The kids would use the internet to google and learn certain definitions. They would find new ways to add things to virtual worlds, or learn how to write a blog or twitter. I find that these methods of teaching would help the kids or who ever is learning it teach themselves.
It would help in every subject in school, such as, math, English or whatever class they have. If they had a problem with math they could look the problem up on the internet. The same things go for other subjects, too. There are thousands of sites online that you can look up problem or subjects to help you in school. The reason why I know is because I have done the same thing myself in Calculus. These classes help children to think that there is always help or to use critical thinking to solve problems.
After watching the video “What is Peer Editing” I began to realize that teachers use a similar format when grading papers I wrote in my past schooling. Also, I was happy because it was short and to the point. I realized that when we comment on our classmates blogs, that we should comment encouraging words as well as correctional suggestions. During the whole period, we still have to stay positive. It helped me realize that this whole time of commenting on other people’s blogs, that I’ve been doing it wrong the whole time.
I especially like the video with the children going over the steps in peer editing, and the many different ways that we or the person whose paper we edited react to peer editing. I’ve never seen or had people like Mean Margaret or some of the others when it comes to editing, but I’d imagine that there are people like them. I would rate myself as the one that didn’t really care about his paper or editing his partners, but that was in my past during high school. Now I care and try to stay positive when editing papers.
The Mountbatten
In this video, I learned something that shocked me, and it was that young children were teaching senior citizens who were impaired on how to use certain technology. I never realized the amount of technology that was out there to help the visually impaired and deaf. I always wondered how they made the braille also. This subject has really opened up my eyes on how to treat and help these types of people.
Teaching the Blind and Deaf
In these videos, I have really learned an issue that hardly ever is recognized. This is teaching the blind or visually impaired. I never really thought of learning math or algebra without having my vision. The video on teaching math to the blind really is focusing in on making certain jobs that require mathematics and knowledge available to them. I really believe that in the near future that levels of math higher than pre-algebra will be met and be available to the blind.
Some other issues that are shown in the last two videos are ways that the blind can learn on their own. One thing that technology has for the blind is from Apple’s Ipad. The Ipad can speak out loud what the person is touch or what app their finger is currently on. They can listen to eBooks and learn stories that are required for students in high school and college. The most impressive thing of all is that they can learn all this on their own.
Harness Your Student’s Smarts
In the video, Harness Your Student’s Smarts, there was a very good topic on children learning to teach themselves basically. The kids would use the internet to google and learn certain definitions. They would find new ways to add things to virtual worlds, or learn how to write a blog or twitter. I find that these methods of teaching would help the kids or who ever is learning it teach themselves.
It would help in every subject in school, such as, math, English or whatever class they have. If they had a problem with math they could look the problem up on the internet. The same things go for other subjects, too. There are thousands of sites online that you can look up problem or subjects to help you in school. The reason why I know is because I have done the same thing myself in Calculus. These classes help children to think that there is always help or to use critical thinking to solve problems.
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