In Chapter 1, I learned many different things already about becoming a teacher in the 21st century! Things such as today's students and how they view technology, students being able to use tablets and smartphones in class, and students being able to learn about technology based textbooks and use them properly all really caught my attention! Overall, this chapter was a great first reading to start off the class.
With students in the classroom as of the 21st century, being able to interpret technology into daily classroom routine is ver important. It not only helps teachers understand their student's learning needs, but it also shows teachers a different approach to be able to teach their students in a more interesting way. I learned that by 2010 over half of the U.S. children under 5 years were using an electronic device to help them with learning and they were also watching 4 hours of television daily. In my opinion, this is way too much technology use for a kid at such a young age.
Learning about Tablets and Smartphones in this chapter was also very helpful even though I have my own of these two devices. I learned about how they both have apps that can be used for thousands of instructional purposes. I always knew that you could obviously download an app to teach or learn a subject to students, I just didn't realize how many that there were! The chapter gave several examples, a few being; interactive world maps in social studies, online dictionaries and poetry collections in language arts, and different calculators and problem solving apps that will actually walk you through a problem step by step until you're sure how to complete it.
Lastly, I thought that technology based textbooks were an awesome idea! With these, teachers are able to easily find online reading materials from every area or subject that they're teaching. Teachers can also create their own activities or worksheets online and put them on an online website for their students to go and view. I always have thought that was so helpful when my teachers would go online and post practice activities to what we were learning in class.
Yay! You got your first post on your first blog!! :) Congratulations
ReplyDeleteThe points that resonated with you are good ones - ones that you'll likely build upon over the semester's time. Nice job on your reflective writing - a skill that you will further develop as you get some additional posts on this blog. You also did an awesome job embedding a relevant video - excellent!
The things to work on for the next blog post: 1) Add all resources in APA format style - no points deducted this first time but all future ones, as it is always critical to provide those references for your readers. 2) In your reflective writing, focus on your opinion about what you learned - how it might impact your future class, why it is important for you, etc rather than the actual facts - you are on the brink of that!. 3) Try adding a Creative Commons licensed photo to provide more visual to your blog - it is tough to just read text these days of multimedia as we reviewed in class. :)
Overall, a great first post - keep up the good work. :)