Project#15 SMARTboard lesson plan

Project #16

My Final PLN

C4T Last Post(#4) Summary

C4T #4

DARE TO CARE is Mrs. Dnise Krebs blog. She is K-8th grade teacher.



C4T: Post#1

An Open Letter to MyPre-Service and New Teacher Friends

Mrs. Krebs shared the following her 4 priorities in teaching;

• Bring whimsy.
• Recognize your colleagues.
• Be chief learner.
• Find and nourish genius.

C4T: Post #2

My Brother

Mrs. Krebs lost her brother because of his death. She loves him so much. She shared her lovely memories with her brother and pictures of wonderful cards and gifts from him. She wrote her memories in early childhood. My thoughts and prayers are with her.

C4K Summary/November

C4K#8
Brain Cancer 

She was threaten by her brain cancer and she can live for 6-8 months. She and her parents was crying when her doctor said her disease was brain cancer. Her cure was Kemo therapy to make better but she had to wear wig because Kemo made her bald. She wanted her friends not to know her disease because she did not break her friendships. However, her best friend and her classmates were aware of her disease because they noticed she was bald. Her best friend treat her samey after noticing she suffered from brain cancer. She talked about her rest life  with her friends and her teachers in her school.





C4K #9

Gorillas are growing, the population is rising!

Alex talked about rising of gorilla's population. He wants people to take care of them more and protect them in national parks, not in zoos. He claimed gorillas can furniture wide habitats in national park. He hopes to keep gorilla population rising.

C4K#10

Melinda Similar Caged Bird

DiAnton posted his opinion about Melinda's story. Melinda is bullied and can not tell anyone what happened to her. He contracted her with caged bird. He stated the causes that made her feel like cage bird.















Pictures:
Gorilla:  http://www.denvergorillarun.com/raceinfo.html
Caged Bird:  http://dattaabhishek.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/know-why-the-caged-bird-sings

Blog Post #13

1. Back To the Future

2. Vision of Students Today

This video was created by Michael Wesch with 200 students at Kansas State University. This video told us what students really think about learning and their future. There are their thoughts that make me think. In this video, his students tell us their average class size is 115. 18% of teachers know students' name. Students buy hundred dollars textbooks that I never open. Students need 26.5 hours per day to study in classroom, study at home, work, eat, sleep, watch TV, listen to music, sent emails with friends, spend on cellphone, do something on online, and so on. Students are multi-tasker but they have to be. Students will be in debt about $2000 after graduation. Student will probably have a job when he or she graduates. That does not exist today.

I think a few things are problem for students. First, students' average class is big and teachers do not know students' name. When students take general education course like biology, history, music and art, I think educators can teach in big class. However, they have to do in small class including 10 to 15 students. For example, my MUE class was Music-Literature Integration for Early Childhood course and this class is very small class including 7 students. I love this course and the teacher! She get our attention in every class and teach effective by demonstrating by herself, so we can learn how we teach for our students. She always call students' name and remember our plan for the future and then she tells us how we teach students at a level appropriate for grade such as kindergarten, first, second, and third grades in elementary school. I can learn many things which are related with my future in her class. I think small class help students communicate a teacher and students and learn many things from a teacher.

Like the video said, our world is rapidly growing and ever changing. Today, kids are taught to pass the test, and make good grades. They need to graduate from a college or a university to get a steady job. In the video, they are being told they cannot get a job without a college education. How do you think the education system has prepared students for the real-world? They are left without a job and most of the time in debt. In the current world, some employers are increasingly searching for employees that have some experience, not just a piece of paper showing they were able to pass a test. However, other employers still hire employees on the basis of their grade at university. Currently, we are needed to have some experience with technology tools.

I believe that the education system should be going to focus on providing students’ experiences related to our real life as well as testing. Students need to learn how to use technology tools and use them repeatedly to have a job in the future because our student will live with technology.

Blog Post #12

In EDM310, I have learned the benefits of blogging, benefits of technology in classroom, how to use technology tools such as Smartboard and Podcasts, and developing PLNs. I will use technology tolls in classroom and create class blog and let my students to do blog post in the future. In addition, I want to create a website for my class or a class page on Facebook to communicate me, my students, and their parents. In these things, I think blogging is important for students to communicate with classroom teachers, students, and their parents, improve their skills to technology and express their ideas to what they have learned. Therefore, I create an assignment for bogging.

Blogger Picture from: http://c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/blogger.png

1. Watch “Blogging with students: How and Why”

Write two or more paragraphs about blogging with students. Write what you have seen and learned through the video. After watching videos, why do teachers use blogging with students?  Write your own opinions. Will you want to create class blog for your students? Why?

2. Read “Integrating, Evaluating, and Managing Blogging inthe Classroom” by Julie Meloni

Write three more paragraphs your pros and cons for her ideas.

3. Write your opinions for blogging with your students; Will you want to create class blog with your students when you will be a teacher?

C4K Summary/October

C4K # 3
Fall

Nikitty talked about time in which she felt fall.







C4K #4
AP Government Ruling My Daily Thoughts

Annelise talked about how US Government influences her everyday surroundings. First, she told how US Government and politics relates to her school and her teachers. Second, she talked about US government is in constant turmoil over national debt and the consistent threat of the government being shut down due to unpassed budgets or bills. Finally, she said how her family members think of politics.

C4K #5
Wow, Felix inspired us!

He introduced the amazing and surprised news and two videos of Felix Baumgartner jump from 24 miles high.







C4K#6
Arthur's Halloween

Miss Mac introduced the book, Arthur's Halloween. This book is so cute! I think this helps kids read and get the fun to read because this has audio and marks when reading.

Special Blog Post Assignment

A World Where Grades Will Be Left Behind

This article mainly provided our future instruction styles with technology and networking with the benefits. This article introduced education system by Sebastian Thrun, a Google vice president and Stanford research professor. He talked about his vision of future education. He said he could never teach in a traditional Stanford classroom. He introduced “Udacity” in which students can get free online courses taught by teachers in the world. Now, it grows that schools use “flip” system in which the students study through videos and complete their homework in their house by class. Additionally, Charter schools have made a curriculum with the use of game-playing learning system. Thrun talked about advantages of technology in education. The first thing is students can take more challenging exercises and quizzes to help students acquire a skill and/or a concept. The second thing is online instruction may be free, but it takes little costs for certification and exams. The third thing is movies can encourage students learn and give fun of learning for them with low costs. Additionally, the movies can be accessed by people worldwide with internet.

I think his future education vision may be coming soon in our future and I will face it as I will be a teacher. Actually, the online courses can give students lectures taught by great teachers in the world and help them learn with fun, and pay attention to lectures with visual effects. I like “Flip” system because it gives students time to prepare for class, figure out what they will learn in class before class day, and ask teachers and classmates questions about lessons. It helps them do work with own speed. However, I think we should teach them on online courses and in classroom because face- to-face teaching is important to master skills and understand what they learn because some students at low level need specific, simple, and sophisticated explanations taught by classroom teachers.

Pictures:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/14/a-world-where-grades-dont-exist-and-learning-is-free/57778420/1

http://blogs.dw.de/educationblog/files/Online-lecture-on-Model-Thinking.jpg

Blog Post Assignment #11

Little Kids...Big Potential

Kathy Cassidy is a 1^st grade teacher in Moose Jaw, Canada and teaches her students technology literate there. She merged technology into her curriculum to help her students acquire skills whose they are going to need to continue to learn in life time. I really enjoyed watching “theSkype interview with Kathy Cassidy” and I was inspired. It proved that a teacher can make a difference. She could choose to integrate technology with her classroom teaching and initiate change. She was not forced to bring technology into her classroom by anyone. That means she decided to and wanted to combine technology with her teaching in the classroom by herself. What she wanted to say is teachers should be willing to make choices by focusing on their students. It may allow them to succeed in and out of the classroom. She cared enough of her students. She decided to help herself, research, and find ways to make the use of available technology for her by herself. The age or grade did not matter in her classroom because technology is available for all aged students. I was impressed by her because her choice to teaching and using technology in her classroom depended on needs of her students. I think she is the mirror of a great teacher because she thought great and primary deal of her students as teacher.

After watching videos, I would like to use and have a classroom blog with my students in the future. In my EDM310’s experiences, I think creating blog posts and projects is great way for students to learn technology tools, display students’ progress to learn and achieve, get their feedback sooner, get confirmation for their works. In addition, students can get many comments from people who use internet in the world. It encourages them to keep up their great work and learn technology tools more although students without technology are encouraged by just parents, teachers, and friends. It also helps them accomplish their goals.

Pictures:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQt7pb7lz0e69LwlWQhZchjwJ7UzfCKtaPgvCG8ISL7iDQmmLAIZYSBQS1R5fo2chy8ieds_mOm7_gyGkpj6pLAhZUsXnhz8Xw5GqfQLmLIinU4_eAFHZSn6frnygh7zy4OiWl_Ka-z0N/s320/Screen+shot+2010-03-04+at+6.40.15+PM.png

Project #11