The i School Initiative
I liked how Travis formed his plans and began to put them into action. I also loved the i School apps. with e-mail, Chemical Touch, World Wiki, Formulae, and Scientific Calculator. I wish that I would have had these apps. when I was in High School. I agree with Travis that with school's struggling financially around the country, this could save a lot on books and help the environment a lot.
I do believe Technology belong's in our classroom's, but I still believe lecture should be in the classroom also. The idea that Teacher's could have their whole class in the palms of their hands at all times is amazing. The fact that Travis travel's around the country bringing the i School information to student's shows how important this is to education, and all teacher's should be involved with technology.
Flipping The Classroom
The video shows three types of students. The higher level students, the middle level, and the lower level students. With the concept of Flipping the Classroom, all three groups of student's needs can be met, that wasn't happening before.
The video shows how there wasn't enough time for differentiation, and how the teacher moves from the front of the class, to the center of the class, which puts her where she needs to be. I would use this approach in a classroom, it seems to work every well. I agree that sometimes teacher's so spend to much time in the classroom lecturing.
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
I was amazed by this video. One -hundred and eighty-five voices. Twelve different countries. Two -hundred and forty-three tracks. The choir includes about two thousands members that sent in video's of themselves singing. Whitacre uses these video's to compile his virtual choir. This is a must video to see. This will probably change the future of choir's recording songs.
Teaching in the 21st Century
In watching the video, Teaching in the 21st Century, I thought Kevin was saying that teachers were no longer needed in the 21st century. Then I realized he was actually saying that we must change the way teachers are teaching.
After taking EDM310, I understand how important technology has become in the classroom and the world. When I first signed up to teach, I had not been in a classroom for over fifteen years. I never dreamed the classroom had changed so much. This was a wake up call for me. I know that I still have a lot to learn, but isn't that what technology is about learning. As the video shows we need to rethink the tools we use and the types of problems we ask student's to solve.
Hi Pamela! So, first things first, I am so glad you have your blog set up in the correct format. It can be such a cluster when someone doesn't put subtitles within their post. Thank you for that. However, I did find some mistakes...
ReplyDelete1. When you put an image in your post make sure to not use google.com as a TITLE modifier. Instead, find where the image originally came from and credit that website as the source.
2. I didn't see any links in your post. Make sure that when you're referencing a video that you watched, that you link it. Not everyone who reads this blog knows what video you are talking about by just reading what you have to say.
3. One small thing that kind of bothered me is that iSchool is one word, not two. Also, apps is a word not an abbreviation so there is no need for a period after it.
4. In general, the main issues that I saw were your incorrect use of apostrophes, your grammar was not very strong, and your sentences didn't seem to flow. Grammar is a very important part of teaching and as a future teacher you need to make sure to focus on that more in your posts. Sentence structure is also a very important skill to learn because it can totally change the flow of your writing. When I was reading this post, it seemed to get really choppy with small sentences in places. Always make sure to re-read your post before you publish it, so you can catch some of these problems. I see that you posted this on Sunday night, so I know you may have rushed to finish it before the deadline. I, myself, have done that before and it was one of my weaker posts.
All in all, your post was okay. Just keep in mind these few things and you should be fine.
Hello Pamela!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. You included a picture for the videos you watched; however, you did not have any links so your viewers could see the videos you were talking about. I also scrolled over your pictures and instead of using google.com as a source of pictures, find out where the picture originally came from. In terms of grammatical errors I saw several. First, iSchool is one word not two words, your use of apostrophes was not correct, and you had a couple of mispelled words. If you have trouble with your use of apostrophes, you can use Google to find out the correct way to use them. In conclusion, I think your blog post would have been great if it was not for all of the grammatical errors. It only takes a couple of minutes to proofread for mistakes.
Good luck!
Cheyanne
"...but I still believe lecture should be in the classroom also." Why? A student just posted on facebook that she did not hear an announcement I made in class. I replied: "That's a problem with oral lectures, conversations, comments, sermons, etc. People don't listen, hear, understand. They sleep, think about other things, carry on other conversations, daydream, etc. And yet the educational establishment continues to use the lecture method. It makes me wonder!" Why must we have lectures in the classroom? And how do you reconcile your position about lectures in the classroom with your enthusiasm (acceptance at least) of the flipped classroom?
ReplyDeleteNo links.
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