Reflection #17 & Video

Webquests have shown me a whole new way to think outside of the box in regards to finding activitites to get students' engaged in the lessons. By starting your lesson out with a webquest the students will find what's important and memorable and then want to continue learning more about a topic. This is because of discovery learning and how good it feeld to find things on your own. You as a teacher now make it information more meaningful to them and help them apply it to their own lives. If there is a lot of interaction and student participation students' won't ever forget this lesson in the overall unit. This is what happened to me in a lesson about mummification where we mummified chickens and did every process, even a burial. I won't ever forget sixth grade and the things I learned during the unit on Egypt.

Schoolhouse Rock-The Preamble Video
This video wasn't able to load , so I went and found another one with the same title and watched it. It was a song about America and how we started this nation. It used cartoons to tell the story of the founding with the Declaration of Independence, and the importance of the first section the preamble. It is really creative and the music helps keep your attention. I think it would be more memorable to younger grades, but yet it might stay in older students' memories longer also. I think it is a great video.

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Reflection #14

This was our last week in field and we were sad to leave. I learned a lot about how a technological teacher can have an impact on his students'. We had them create presentations on rocks and all of them decide to do a power point. I was shocked by the things they knew and created they seemed way beyond my level. Also another day they create a comic strip to go with their stories they wrote for parent teacher conferences. They handle mac book laptops better then most adults and it's so cool they get to use them. During the afternoon two times they took quizzes created by there teacher, which were multiple choice. Instead of just calling out the answers they used these remote control clickers to choose the answer and whoever hadn't gone the screen showed everyone. This was a different way of testing that they seemed to like and at the same time they went over test taking strategies. It is because of the teacher that these students' are so exposed to technology and it gives them real life experiences that they will need in the future.

Reflection #13

This week in field experience I had a cool learning experience as we taught a science lesson that was technology rich. The lesson which took two days long, has an evaluation where groups do presentations on a rock of utah. One child in the class is very behind in reading, writing, and speaking since english is his second language. He always needs more accomodations and guidance ,but when it came to researching information online and putting it into a presentation he knew what he was doing. I was amazed and truly realized that technology has its own language that everyone can learn to speak, no matter your ethnicity. We can include technology into more of our future lessons as teachers, so that generations can start early to understand the world around them.

Reflection #12

Why are these tools social tools/networking skills popular with students'?

These tools are popular with students in that they get another way of learning thats outside of the classroom. They get a break from the regular daily schedule and learn by technology. In classroom the students' have clickers that they can all answer to a quiz by pushing buttons. It shows who hasn't answered and what they scores are immediately. Some may like to email back and forth a pen pal or email each other or teacher for other questions,

How will the social tools/networking skills learned help me communicate with my colleagues?

These tools of blogging, email, word documents, and so on are all important skills to help you communicate with your colleagues. When your colleagues all know these skills too you can combine ideas for a good unit coming up or a special lesson plan. You also have to communicate with the technology personnel to sign up for certain times and borrow equipment like a mobile lab. All the teachers' of the same grade level need to cooperate together to see and evaluate past learning and new techniques. By emailing back and forth, teachers' can talk more frequently since its out of school.