Blog post #10

Sir Ken Robinson talks about the things that we take for granted. I do believe that we donot really know what we take for granted. Yes, we can think of all the things that we do take for granted, but what about the things that are not so obvious. Sir Ken states that education needs a revolution. Education needs to get away from the standard way of teaching, because not everyone learns the same. Learning for you may be easy, but that same exact process could be very hard for the next person. This is evident in day to day school settings. I do realize that changing and revolutionizing education will not be an easy task, but I am willing to accept the challenge and accept the things that we so often take for granted and don't even realize.I really enjoyed Sir Kens video. I look forward to viewing many more.

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Project 15 PBL#3

CEREAL BOX BIOGRAPHY
GRADES 2-4
DURATION 1-2 WEEKS

This project is a social studies project for introducing students to the concepts of biographies in a relative way. Students will work in pairs to research a historically significant figure and create a report based on their findings. To make things more engaging for students, they will decorate a cereal box using the information, and create quizzes, images and a bibliography. This project could be completed partly or entirely for homework.
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Blog #9

Watching Mrs. Cassidy's video I have a new insight on the media world. I have always been the person that questioned the fact that blogging in the classroom is useless. Mrs. Cassidy states that we have to change because the world is changing, that handicapping yourself, and your students is what we will be doing if we do not take the time to take advantage of all the collaborating tools that are available via the internet and social media. The basic paper and pencil method is okay, but think of the possibilities that a student can accomplish just by this simple fact. This would help a child write more and be more expressive in their writing.
Another thing that was a bit interesting to me was the fact that Mrs. Cassidy does not necessarily use social media in her personal life, but in her classroom.I now know that blogging and social media can and will be the thing that takes my teaching technique to a completely different level.

Project #9

Project #14 plan#2

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TEACHERS GUIDE

C4T#2

The Thinking stick.
For this assignment I had the pleasure to visit Jeff Utecht's blog posts. I took an interest in his blog about 2014 Predictions of technology. Jeff talks all the predictions that he has had with the technology field.How he predicted a new technology would evolve in some sort and how it has come to past. His 2014 prediction is wearable technology, where we woould be able to look through a glass connected to eyeglasses. Mr. Jeff hopes that the first disruptive will be in physical education. Using something like Fitbit that the students could possible wear and monitor if they are getting adequate amounts of exercise. I commented that I wasn't so sure how felt about wearable technology, but the idea of fit-bit could be a major asset to students around the world.

The last post that Mr. Jeff talks about is his frustration with the fact that it is the year 2014, 14years in the century and the internet is 25 years old. He states that we need to embrace the fact that the internet need to improve. He compares how some places like starbucks allows places that students can access things that the public libraries should cut their non fiction book budget to fund research places. He also gave great points as to how teachers should have acces to a laptop in the classroom. He gave points on how the access to youtube and facebook should be allowed in the classroom. There are lots of great things on these sites, they just have to be filtered. He also states that if the schools cannot provide some type of educational media like a ipad that the students should be allowed to bring their own. I know some people would not agree, but children as early as the third grade have cell phones and can get any information that they want at any time. His points are very interesting and if you ask me, very great points. The world of media is only becoming greater. My theory is that we can't beat technology, might as well embarce and improve it. I commented that I hope that his points gets into the minds of those who make the decisions on how a classroom should operate.

Blog 8

A 21st century learning and communicating tool that I really like and would incorporate in my classroom is Flipping the classroom. This technique is very interesting in that fact that the teacher can have pre recorded material sent to the children before the lesson is even taught. The students can then practice the material at home and gain more knowledge about things, gather any questions that they might have, and present them to the taecher the next school day. This way the teacher can address the children that are having issues in certain subject areas, and be able to give them more one on one attention.
I agree with this technique because, some children need further instruction or support from their teacher when they complete their homework assignments. I remember days where I would need assistance and the teacher would say that they were not going to hold up the class to try and teach something all over again. Flipping the classroom will allow the teacher to see excatly if the concept that they are trying to help the children master is successful or not. This evaluation can then allow the taeacher to try and adjust her teaching method to help those students who are struggling without intreupting class time for those who have grasped the concept.

One more thing that future educators should know. Flipping the classroom is not an easy task. Sometimes we as future eductors try and find an easy thing to try jsut because it is new. Please view 5 things I wish I knew about Flipping the classroom This video gives an honest opinion of a teacher who states that flipping does require lots of planning and dedication. The children have to be engaged in the material in order for flipping to work. To all my future and curent eduactors who plam on or are flipping their classrooms GOOD LUCK on your flipping journey.

Project 13 PBL #1

Our group decided to do a lesson plan on art, that includes dance. It is called Dance Out Loud. The idea of the project is to introduce the elements of choreography and choreographic form. They will understand the difference between dance as art, and dance as a sport. The students will present their projects in any form of media format.The objective is to identify, define, and practice elements of choreorgraphy. To show evidence of success in achieving identified learning target. The teacher will use available texts and other technology resources. Students will create a choreography dictionary in their choice of media format. Students will also demonstarte inderstanding of terminology through Media Presentation of the dictionary.

Blog# 7

What can we learn about teaching and learning from Randy Pausch?

Watching Randy Pausch in his last lecture, made me look at things in a whole new light.I now have picked up a few techniques that I plan to use in my own life. One particular thing that stood out to me was that the way you say things can get a good or bad reaction. If someone is rude you feel attacked, but someone else can say the exact same thing, and you can see where they are coming from. I know this to be true because, I was told NO! before by one person, went to another person had the same conversation, and they explained to me why I needed to improve the task at hand. Randy Pausch gave a few tips that one can follow they include:
Remember to have fun
never lose childhood wonder
help others
and remember that loyalty is a two way street.
These are just a few things that I will take with me through life.

To answer the question...I think that we can learn that teaching is not about what we know, but how we can help students. By being loyal to them and allowing them to explore different things in the classroom. This can help children blossom and believe that they can achieve anything that they put their minds to.I love Mr.Pausch's statement that if you lead life the right way and good things will come to you.

C4K Summary (FEB)

On Feburary 8, 2014 I was assigned to comment on the blog of Haylee J. This student gave steps to solve a fraction with unlike denominators.She gave directions to cross multiply and find a common denominator, then add the numerators and the final step was to simplify your problem by didvsion. My comment was that I enjoyed the post and told her Great Job!

My next student was Lily. Lily talked about having two big brothers, two pets which included a bird, and a hampster named chumchum. I commented that she did a great job on her post, and that I would love to play with her pet hampster.

I also took a visit to Mrs. Millers's class and read Haley's blog on This I believe. On this blog post the student talked about karma and how she believed that what ever you believe in it seems to manifest in life. This was a high school student, and I did suggest that she remember to always capitalize the pronoun I.

My final C4K class was Tessa C. blog about a story called Sarah's Key. Tessa did a power-point on the book, and gave graphics and great animations.I commented that the story seemed interesting. This story reminds me of the story of Anne Frank. This too was a story about the holocaust.I told Tessa that she did an awesome job, and to keep up the good work.