Project #16

Blog Post #13

ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange! This website is very helpful for teachers because it gives them ideas for lesson plans, they can listen to podcasts, web links that help teachers in the classroom and links for students and administration as well. This website is very helpful for everyone associated with schools.
This website will be very helpful for me when I become a teacher and I cannot wait to use it. It is also helpful for us as students right now for making lesson plans for our classes at USA.
ALEX

ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators & Students Statewide. This website gives kids additional material for school that they might not get at school. It also has countless resources for everyone in the school such as counselors and administration.
ACCESS

Additional Assignment #5

Tom Johnsons Adventures in Pencil Integration
This is a great way to teach children!! Life in general is confusing so children need to be exposed at looking at everything in life from several different angles; so I believe that a metaphor is an excellent thing to teach children. The metaphor of the pencil compared to the middle school children was very well described and very true. The middle school children are up one day and down the next just like how a pencil can write dark black and then be gray! These are totally different things that one person and pencil can do. In “He just likes the class for the pencils” was very moving. The child loved the class because she was respected and the teacher listened to him we need to respect all of the children and they will all love the class for the “pencils”. In “The medium shapes the learning” we see that mediums shapes what we are trying to teach our children.

Post Progress Report Final Project

For our final project we have decided to do a movie. We are going to interview teachers about what they think about smart boards and how they think that smart bored are beneficial for the children. My partners are Kindra Blackwell and Leah Davis.

Summary Response

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I was very suprised that some students said that we should not have more money given to the art program. 40% of the students siad that music would benifit the children more than any of the other art domains. Another thing that was very suprising was that the students said that their favorite subject in elementary school was spelling. Art was offered at their school but the students still chose spelling as their favorite subject in elementary school spelling was 47%. So maybe we should put art with spelling in some kind of way.

Project 15

Blog Post #12

Children and Technology: Key Stage 2; watch this video and write about your thoughts on this video and who dose it help other than the children?

Blog #12

In this video the children tell us how much fun it is to do stuff on the computer and they do not even realize they are learning because they are having fun.  The use of technology also helps the parents out greatly.  Most of the children that are around the technology or computers actually teach the parents how to work the computer.  This also helps the parents to stay more in touch with the child's teachers and they can hear podcast from their child's class.  They can also go on the teachers sites and find educational sites to help the children in certain subjects they might need help on.

Blog Post #11

First Graders in Ms. Cassidy's class

Little Kids…Big Potential

These children were amazing!! I just now am learning how to do things on blogs and do a lot of basic stuff on the internet!  These children will go very far in life.  I hope that more and more schools use these technologies to better there child’s knowledge and better their futures and knowledge of technology.  I loved Ms. Cassidy’s approaches in her class room.  I would say this is a elementary EDM 310.  I would love to use blogging in my class room and also Skype with my children.  I think that they would love to blog and they would look forward to the responses they get from people from all over the world. The impediments would be if the children did not use the blog for educational purposes and if for some reason we had technological difficulties when due dates are coming near.

Teach Someone Project #14

Summary Post C4K comments 3-7

C4K #3
Patricia drew a picture of herself pretending to a Maori Mariner. She wrote that she was paddling to Aotearoa and when she gets there she is going to kiss the golden sand. I posted on Patricia’s picture that I loved the colors she used in her picture. Also I really liked the cross she had on her boat in the picture.
C4K #4
In Clareice’s blog post she told us she was excited about the holiday coming up because she was going to China. Her father and grandmother live there and she was excited to go see them. I replied back to her post and said you seem very excited about going to China and have fun.
C4K #5
The senior in high school tells us that “education is not a destination but is a journey”. He tells us the most important things he has learned in school. And he also tells us about how women in Saudi Arabia are treated and how they have to have permission from a male to do day to day things. But if these women were educated they would know that they don’t have to put up with this and leave!! I relied to his post by saying; I think the world would be a much better place if we were all educated.
Aaron made a chart to show how many hits a day certain websites get such as google.com. I told him I thought it was very interesting that AltaVista had way more hits than Google.
C4K #6
Cole M. wrote on his blog that summer will not last forever. So do not waste your time watching T.V. I replied to his post by saying; I do not watch T.V. so I do not waste a lot of time watching T.V. I have way too many other things to be doing rather than watching T.V.
C4K#7
Joe said that school has changed so much for him since 4th grade. He said that they now have their own personal computers rather than having to share computers now. I replied to his post by saying that it sounds like school for you really has changed for you since 4th grade. I did not get my own person computer until I started college.

Summary Post C4T #3 Teach #3

The first post I commented on for Mr. C’s blog was about his first week of school which was very stressful for him.  He said he needed to make more time for his planning his lessons instead of helping everyone else and not preparing for his stuff.  He also said that it was hard doing team teaching when he didn’t even have time to plan stuff with the other teacher!  He also stated he was teaching math for the first time in eight years; he was trying to put real world stuff behind it so it would seem easier for the students!  I commented back to his blog by saying I like your thoughts about how to be prepared for the first week of school and good luck with getting the students to learn with real world experiences in math class.

In the second post I commented on for Mr. C’s blog he stated that he was reflecting on his first day of school.  He reflected on this day of school to better his elf and to make sure the coming days of school were better and better.  He told us what he needed to improve on and what he needed to do to make the class more beneficial for the students!  He said he needed to talk to the children more and not about himself so he will get to know the children.  He also said he needed to be prepared for problems in the classroom the students might have before he comes to class.   I replied to his post by saying; I thought it was wonderful he was reflecting on the first day to better his class.  And I also think that all teachers should do this so that their students get the best quality experience in the classroom they need.

Reflections on Teaching in 2.0 

Additional Assignment #3

I think the most important thing that Sir Ken Robinson had to say was that our children are being drugged to not be themselves!  Children really are being medicated for things they do not even have.  They are not being able to be themselves and live a happy life because these doctors are drugging them up to concentrate more in class because the children are so bored.  When he said you do not always need an education that threw me off a little but he was right.  I think you do need to at least try and get an education just as a backup plan in case your none education job does not work out.  I believe Sir Ken Robinson’s views are much like the ones we study today in college.   The strategy that Robinson said was good for children was collaboration.  I believe children learn best from each other.  To address these issues we as future educators could try teach the children how to think divergently and how to learn with others.   I loved this demonstration; my favorite part was the illustrations.  I believe I would be the artist in the project.  It would be fun coming up with people to draw and ways to convey the story.

Sir Ken Robinson