I teach Computer Applications to sixth and seventh grade students. I can use a blog in my class to post assignments and due dates, jeopardy vocabulary games to learn the weeks vocabulary words, post questions for students to use the internet to find the answer.
Students will benefit from this blog because they will be able to finish assignments on time, they will be able to learn the vocabulary words of the week, and they will be able to look at other students answer to the questions to see if they were able to use the internet to find the correct answer.
Your idea to have students research the internet to answer a question you pose will allow you to build a data bank of information compiled by your class. This will give students incentive to research more and click on new links to provide them with even more information. Perhaps students can help organize this information as part of an assignment to work further as a cooperative group. How do you see yourself using this information the students are researching?
The questions will be building a biography of a political person and will be compiled into a biography form at the end of the biography. The assisnment is also a check point as to how well students are able to surf the web to find information which meets one of the TEKS in my course.
You are giving a good example of how blogs can be used in the class to centralize information and tasks students have to follow. Will you be using the blog to share student’s answers to the given questions or things like facts they find about the vocabulary of the week? I think that using blogs for such purpose will give you a tool for constructive learning and will probably motivate your students to exemplary complete their tasks as they are becoming public. Information is no longer univocal so I’m sure that if the right questions are asked a lot of discussion and debate will be held in the blog.
I have enjoyed this class. I had never created a podcast, a blog, nor had I participated in a wiki - I did not know what they were until I took this course. I am glad to know how to create a blog, a podcast, and how to participate in a wiki. In this course I learned that we are to move from the conventional way of teaching, to learner-centered teaching; I also learned ways to move to learner-centered teaching. I have learned first hand to use technology to teach information I want the students to learn. My students were not learning the vocabulary I was teaching until I placed it on the computer – then my students begin to make hundreds on their vocabulary tests, several of my students expressed that they liked using technology to learn the vocabulary words. I can continue to expand my knowledge of learning, teaching, and leading with technology with the aim of increasing student achievement by continuing to take courses that integrates technology in the classroom, such course teach me different methods to use to teach information I want my students to learn, they give me reasons for using these methods, and they teach me the most recent technology I can use to engage my students in learning. These courses also teach me the importance of educating myself in order to teach the 21 century learners that we have today.
My first long range goal of transforming my classroom environment is to incorporate blogs to teach several objectives in my class. My second goal to transform my classroom environment; is to incorporate wiki’s and podcast to teach various objectives in my class. I will accomplish these goal by allowing students to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts to complete assignments, instead of the conventional method of paper and pencil worksheet completion. Because I am a Technology Application Teacher, I do not foresee any institutional or systemic obstacles to accomplishing my goals.
In my first initial checklist I said that I do the following practices seldom or rarely, but after taking this course I find that I will do all of the following practices to support the 21 century learner often: Design instructional activities requiring student collaboration to accomplish a joint task, provide students with multiple and varied opportunities for using technology tools and resources to support the learning, provide students with opportunities for sharing and presenting information in multiple ways, with a choice of medium (text, multi-media, graphics, etc.), enable students to take responsibility of their own learning by providing tools and resources that allow them to mange their own learning goals, plan learning strategies, and evaluate their progress and outcomes, design learning experiences incorporating technology by first examining the learning goals to be achieved and then recommending the most appropriate tools to support those goals model appropriate integration practices by designing a technology-rich classroom environment in which technology tools support student-centered instructional practices, work to promote best practices in technology integration by researching, evaluating, selecting and sharing new tools for classroom instruction. I am glad to be able to teach the 21 century learners more efficiently.
I teach Computer Applications to sixth and seventh grade students. I can use a blog in my class to post assignments and due dates, jeopardy vocabulary games to learn the weeks vocabulary words, post questions for students to use the internet to find the answer.
ReplyDeleteStudents will benefit from this blog because they will be able to finish assignments on time, they will be able to learn the vocabulary words of the week, and they will be able to look at other students answer to the questions to see if they were able to use the internet to find the correct answer.
Your idea to have students research the internet to answer a question you pose will allow you to build a data bank of information compiled by your class. This will give students incentive to research more and click on new links to provide them with even more information. Perhaps students can help organize this information as part of an assignment to work further as a cooperative group. How do you see yourself using this information the students are researching?
ReplyDeleteThe questions will be building a biography of a political person and will be compiled into a biography form at the end of the biography. The assisnment is also a check point as to how well students are able to surf the web to find information which meets one of the TEKS in my course.
ReplyDeleteYou are giving a good example of how blogs can be used in the class to centralize information and tasks students have to follow. Will you be using the blog to share student’s answers to the given questions or things like facts they find about the vocabulary of the week? I think that using blogs for such purpose will give you a tool for constructive learning and will probably motivate your students to exemplary complete their tasks as they are becoming public. Information is no longer univocal so I’m sure that if the right questions are asked a lot of discussion and debate will be held in the blog.
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I have enjoyed this class. I had never created a podcast, a blog, nor had I participated in a wiki - I did not know what they were until I took this course. I am glad to know how to create a blog, a podcast, and how to participate in a wiki. In this course I learned that we are to move from the conventional way of teaching, to learner-centered teaching; I also learned ways to move to learner-centered teaching. I have learned first hand to use technology to teach information I want the students to learn. My students were not learning the vocabulary I was teaching until I placed it on the computer – then my students begin to make hundreds on their vocabulary tests, several of my students expressed that they liked using technology to learn the vocabulary words. I can continue to expand my knowledge of learning, teaching, and leading with technology with the aim of increasing student achievement by continuing to take courses that integrates technology in the classroom, such course teach me different methods to use to teach information I want my students to learn, they give me reasons for using these methods, and they teach me the most recent technology I can use to engage my students in learning. These courses also teach me the importance of educating myself in order to teach the 21 century learners that we have today.
ReplyDeleteMy first long range goal of transforming my classroom environment is to incorporate blogs to teach several objectives in my class. My second goal to transform my classroom environment; is to incorporate wiki’s and podcast to teach various objectives in my class. I will accomplish these goal by allowing students to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts to complete assignments, instead of the conventional method of paper and pencil worksheet completion. Because I am a Technology Application Teacher, I do not foresee any institutional or systemic obstacles to accomplishing my goals.
In my first initial checklist I said that I do the following practices seldom or rarely, but after taking this course I find that I will do all of the following practices to support the 21 century learner often: Design instructional activities requiring student collaboration to accomplish a joint task, provide students with multiple and varied opportunities for using technology tools and resources to support the learning, provide students with opportunities for sharing and presenting information in multiple ways, with a choice of medium (text, multi-media, graphics, etc.), enable students to take responsibility of their own learning by providing tools and resources that allow them to mange their own learning goals, plan learning strategies, and evaluate their progress and outcomes, design learning experiences incorporating technology by first examining the learning goals to be achieved and then recommending the most appropriate tools to support those goals model appropriate integration practices by designing a technology-rich classroom environment in which technology tools support student-centered instructional practices, work to promote best practices in technology integration by researching, evaluating, selecting and sharing new tools for classroom instruction. I am glad to be able to teach the 21 century learners more efficiently.