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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
What I think of audio in learning environments....
Today we useed Audacity in the class and I feel that it was a different experience for me because I was able to find many Positives and Negitive by using this type of tecnology.
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- I was able learn how to use a piece of technology.
- I though it was interesting how the students on the Mac computers were able to get going quickly and didn’t have to worry about headphones and microphones like the PC computer students.
- Technology dose not always work the way its supose to. ( ex. After all the steps my audio still dosent want to play on my blog)
- I didn’t like the sound of my own voice
- During the process of trying to post my audio I came to the problem of not all the steps were on our worksheet. Therefore, I had to ask for help and the teacher and I had to figure out what steps were missing. Then after I emailed the rest of the class to give them a heads up. Therefore they wouldn’t have the same problems as me.
- Teachers can have it set for each child could click on their name and it would play them what they would have to do (ex. Morning rutie, tests for students that get them read to them)
- Teachers can use it to make the children more interested in a book.
- Teachers can play there lesson plans for the sub- teachers.
- Teachers can leave messages for there students if they cant make it in to school
- Teachers can send home messages to parents to let them know whats going on during the day.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling / Content learning Continue
After reading the 7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling from www.educause.edu/eli I learned that Digital storytelling means "combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component." I feel you could use this in your classroom as a group or individual activity. This is a good activity for students due to they don't have to have much technical background knowledge to be able to create a digital story. There are many programs online that are free to be able to create these stories. One way many teachers use digital storytelling could be having the student listen to a story that the teacher made and then having them create their own story in groups and or individually. Then have they create they story using digital story programs.
After re-reading in the book Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning and talking with my teacher I learned that content learning is a basic fact that a student has to memorize.
Declarative is the idea of just memorizing.
For example, the students will memorize the grapheme of the letters of the alphebet.
Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together.
For example, students could conect the idea of grapheme and phonems together.
Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
For example having the student apply what they learned during the lesson by using a game.
An example of a game many elementary teachers may use is:
I got the idea for this game from the web site Prekinders.com.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
After re-reading in the book Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning and talking with my teacher I learned that content learning is a basic fact that a student has to memorize.
Declarative is the idea of just memorizing.
For example, the students will memorize the grapheme of the letters of the alphebet.
Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together.
For example, students could conect the idea of grapheme and phonems together.
Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
For example having the student apply what they learned during the lesson by using a game.
An example of a game many elementary teachers may use is:
Musical Letters
This is a fun game we play if the children are interested in writing letters. We place the chairs in a circle, and I place a letter and a different colored marker on each chair. While the music plays, children march around the circle holding a clipboard with paper or a dry erase board. When the music stops, they must find the closest chair, take the letter and marker and write that letter on their paper or dry erase board. You are welcome to use any kind of music that gets your students involved.I got the idea for this game from the web site Prekinders.com.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
Merlot / Content Learning
After reading and looking on the website Merlot I learned about learning objects and I went out and found a game called Find the Letter in Your Name that students could play to be able to help them learn the grapheme of their own names.
Find the Letters in Your Name
The children really enjoy this game because they love to wander around the room. I folded a paper in half and wrote “Letters in my name” on one half and “Letters not in my name” on the other half. Children attached these to clipboards and walked around the room looking for letters in the classroom. When they found a letter, they determined which half of the paper to write it on.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
After I was to read in Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning. I was not sure if i understood the information. Therefore, I went back to class and went and talked with my teacher to be able to understand what the content learning was actually about. After I came to the conclution that Declarative is the idea of just memorizing, Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together and Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 1
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org and this paragraph; “A speaker at the FETC Virtual Conference and Expo said he believes that 21st centruy learning is not an option, it's a necessity for students who must go out and compete on a global level. He said "Students deserve it. The world demands it" To make it happen, he said changes need to be made in the way we assess students and in the way we develop teachers.” After reading these two pieces of writing I have to agree that throughout the years teaching has changed due to the rapid growth of technology and the mind set of people wanting to learn.
This week we were asked to read from
One question that many will think about after reading these is “How do you think teaching and learning will differ for you and your future students compared with how it was for you and your teachers in K-12?” I think its amazing the changes that our future children will be able to will be able to progress from. For example, When I was a young child technology was just not really in schools like it is today. My idea of technology was a typewriter throughout elementary school for the most part. When we would learn new ideas we had to go read books. Even the library was different back then now a days to have a computer to find a book in the library back when I was in school I would have to get a librarian to help me search through the old card catalogs. On the other hand, when I become a teacher and have children its going to be interesting to how technology will play a role in how much children really will be learning the “criteria” vs. how to use the technology to do what they want for them.
When you look at the 21st skills you have to think about yourself as being teachers and how are you going to teach this information and be learning this information at the same time due to technology is always changing. We have seen this in the short amount of time that the EDU 102 has been created at Niagara Community Collage.
On my own I had found a video on teachertube.com that talked about the 21st century skills and it really gave me a different outlook on them and made me really think how we as teachers have to learn so much and teach so differently then the way we were thought back in the day. Now due to the fact these children are able to access so much technology We as teachers have to teach them how to use this technology to better themselves because want these children to not only want to learn and know the right answers, but to be able to ask new question and want to know more than what’s right there in front of them. (This video will be found on 21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 2)
This week we were asked to read from
One question that many will think about after reading these is “How do you think teaching and learning will differ for you and your future students compared with how it was for you and your teachers in K-12?” I think its amazing the changes that our future children will be able to will be able to progress from. For example, When I was a young child technology was just not really in schools like it is today. My idea of technology was a typewriter throughout elementary school for the most part. When we would learn new ideas we had to go read books. Even the library was different back then now a days to have a computer to find a book in the library back when I was in school I would have to get a librarian to help me search through the old card catalogs. On the other hand, when I become a teacher and have children its going to be interesting to how technology will play a role in how much children really will be learning the “criteria” vs. how to use the technology to do what they want for them.
When you look at the 21st skills you have to think about yourself as being teachers and how are you going to teach this information and be learning this information at the same time due to technology is always changing. We have seen this in the short amount of time that the EDU 102 has been created at Niagara Community Collage.
On my own I had found a video on teachertube.com that talked about the 21st century skills and it really gave me a different outlook on them and made me really think how we as teachers have to learn so much and teach so differently then the way we were thought back in the day. Now due to the fact these children are able to access so much technology We as teachers have to teach them how to use this technology to better themselves because want these children to not only want to learn and know the right answers, but to be able to ask new question and want to know more than what’s right there in front of them. (This video will be found on 21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 2)
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