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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Blog Post # 10
What can we learn from Sir Ken Robinson? In this assignment we watched a video Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
Mr. Robinson thinks education needs to change. He thinks education systems are still stuck in the past. In my own experience I do see some teachers are just content with the way things are. I do think that educators need to be more open minded to move forward with education. We are being taught to be more involved with our students. The kids in our generation are smart and more advanced than my generation. In order to teach this generation we have to learn about what they love to do. I believe I will be one of those teachers that loves my job. Mr. Robinson mentions that you should be doing something you really have a passion for. I love kids and I love being around children. I love helping my own children with their school work. I really believe teaching is my passion. Mr.Robinson says we need to personalize our teaching with our individual students. Robinson thinks teachers and technology is the future of our education system. I think the future of our children is for education to move in a different direction. I have children in the Baldwin County school system and they have started to move forward. I can not wait to see the results of all these great changes.
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Mr. Robinson thinks education needs to change. He thinks education systems are still stuck in the past. In my own experience I do see some teachers are just content with the way things are. I do think that educators need to be more open minded to move forward with education. We are being taught to be more involved with our students. The kids in our generation are smart and more advanced than my generation. In order to teach this generation we have to learn about what they love to do. I believe I will be one of those teachers that loves my job. Mr. Robinson mentions that you should be doing something you really have a passion for. I love kids and I love being around children. I love helping my own children with their school work. I really believe teaching is my passion. Mr.Robinson says we need to personalize our teaching with our individual students. Robinson thinks teachers and technology is the future of our education system. I think the future of our children is for education to move in a different direction. I have children in the Baldwin County school system and they have started to move forward. I can not wait to see the results of all these great changes.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Blog post #9
I love how Mrs. Cassidy has chosen to incorporate technology in her classroom. I think her having first graders make videos and do blogs is a wonderful idea. She puts the computers that were given to her class to very good use. Who would have ever thought a first grader would be blogging? I did not ever think that would happen. Mrs. Cassidy had to learn to use each of these tools and do research to find new and exciting things to do with technology in her classroom.
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I think discussing the importance of safety on the internet with the students is very important. I am very glad as a parent and a future educator that Mrs. Cassidy stresses to her students the importance of being safe. There is all kinds of ways to use technology in a classroom and Mrs. Cassidy learned ways to use technology with her first graders. I would love to use blogging in my future class room it is a great idea to get this generation interested in writing.
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I think discussing the importance of safety on the internet with the students is very important. I am very glad as a parent and a future educator that Mrs. Cassidy stresses to her students the importance of being safe. There is all kinds of ways to use technology in a classroom and Mrs. Cassidy learned ways to use technology with her first graders. I would love to use blogging in my future class room it is a great idea to get this generation interested in writing.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Blog Post 8
What is Edmodo? I did some research to find a tool to help students learn. Edmodo is an educational website that is like social networking. Teachers and Students can communicate and share ideas. It is free to use and a good way for parents and teachers as well. Teachers can incorporate this in the class room through reading assignments. This site can be used to create calendars or even grade assignments. I also read they can post a quiz for students to take. Edmodo can also be a great place for students to critique each others work and give feed back. I would use this tool in my future classroom to communicate with my students as well as their parents if I need to. It seems to be a good tool to use in my future classroom.Click here to View Edmodo.com
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Summary C4T #2
This is Heidi Siwak.
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She is a middle school teacher in Canada. The first week I read Ms.Siwak blog she took students to the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat in Toronto. She demonstrates how research was shown on communication pattern. Ms. Siwak then took this research back to her class and shared it with them. She had them do a similar project. I found it interesting that the students were explaining their conversations by what the one student had drawn in the pattern.
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I went back to her blog two weeks later. Ms.Siwak posted about how to get to students to come up with more creative ideas. She told her students to break up in pairs. She then gave them all Oreo cookies and told them to discuss how many different ways you can eat an Oreo cookie. Ms.Siwak then told her students to eat their cookie without using their hands. I love this idea she explains how many different ideas her students were coming up with. I really think this is a wonderful idea to get students thinking more creatively. I commented and told her I hope to use this idea in my future class room.
Click here to see her blogShe is a middle school teacher in Canada. The first week I read Ms.Siwak blog she took students to the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat in Toronto. She demonstrates how research was shown on communication pattern. Ms. Siwak then took this research back to her class and shared it with them. She had them do a similar project. I found it interesting that the students were explaining their conversations by what the one student had drawn in the pattern.
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I went back to her blog two weeks later. Ms.Siwak posted about how to get to students to come up with more creative ideas. She told her students to break up in pairs. She then gave them all Oreo cookies and told them to discuss how many different ways you can eat an Oreo cookie. Ms.Siwak then told her students to eat their cookie without using their hands. I love this idea she explains how many different ideas her students were coming up with. I really think this is a wonderful idea to get students thinking more creatively. I commented and told her I hope to use this idea in my future class room.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Blog Post #7
This weeks driving question is "What Can We Learn About Teaching and Learning From Randy Pausch?" In this video Mr.Pausch makes his last lecture very humorous. He keeps the audience's attention with his jokes and in this lesson. He tells his own personal stories of lessons he learned. Randy Pausch was discussing his football experience and how it was a learning experience for him stating "Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly." After graduating with his PHD, Randy Pausch started pursuing his dream job at Disney. He did not get the job. He explains how not getting his dream job is like a brick wall and states "Brick walls are there to see how bad you really want something." Do not give up on something you really want. Randy Pausch ended up being a professor at a college. In his classes he uses project based learning. He describes the students first projects were amazing and blew him away. Randy Pausch tells his students "Guys that was pretty good but I know you can do better." I think by him telling his students that they have no boundaries and they enjoyed what they were doing. I will diffidently be using that strategy with my students in the future.
I learned several things in this video such as use personal lessons and make it a learning experience. Try not to set boundaries for students and see what they can do. Help others on your journey to being a teacher. You can even learn new things from your students. Randy Pausch states in his lecture " The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to be self-reflective." I learned also that you can teach students something hard by doing something fun. The students do not even realize they are learning. In order to be an educator you need to be ready to be a lifelong learner. Don't be afraid of feedback. Take the feedback and learn from it.
This picture is of Randy Pausch
I learned several things in this video such as use personal lessons and make it a learning experience. Try not to set boundaries for students and see what they can do. Help others on your journey to being a teacher. You can even learn new things from your students. Randy Pausch states in his lecture " The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to be self-reflective." I learned also that you can teach students something hard by doing something fun. The students do not even realize they are learning. In order to be an educator you need to be ready to be a lifelong learner. Don't be afraid of feedback. Take the feedback and learn from it.
This picture is of Randy Pausch
Our group "Las Vegas" Chose to do our lesson plan on Hurricanes for the third grade. Here is the link to view our site.
The Eye Of The Storm
Hurricane Photo
The Eye Of The Storm
Hurricane Photo
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