Reflection on technology tools to use in the class room:
http://www.techlearning.com/article/back-to-school-product-showcase/46264
A lot of these tools were software or online downloads that look very useful. The online learning exchange is a site that a teacher can upload their course material alongside the information from the textbook for student access. They have different activities on the website to track the student's progress. One idea I thought was very interesting would be to have an independent learning class. Since I am a science teacher I would have one of my classes be an independent science class. The Gradpoint tool is an online program (http://www.pearsonschool.com/%20gradpoint) that has different elective courses a student could do. This class that I am envisioning would need to be in the computer lab or have enough laptops for each student in the class. Students could pick different science courses and do it at their own pace. I would be more of a facilitator than a teacher. If students had a problem with what they are learning I would be able to help them. I think this would be good to give them experience in courses they wouldn't normally encounter in high school. It would also give them experience being more independent in their learning to help them prepare for college.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
9/13/2012
"Find an article and respond on your blog"
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/websites-for-science-teachers-eric-brunsell
This blog post has ten websites that this science teacher thinks are the most useful for classes. I choose this article because I think it is a good idea to have lots of different resources that way it keeps the class from getting stale and boring. I have started a "Links" page on the website we have for this class for all the useful/interesting educational sites that I have found. I am definitely going to be adding a bunch from this post. The comments had a lot of them as well.
The flexbooks that I read about in the last blog were mentioned in the comments for this blog as well. Something that I hadn't heard about was the scishow channel on youtube. This channel has TONS of short science videos by a guy who (in my opinion) does a good job of keeping them interesting. I really like that he does current event science topics. One of the websites on the blog was called Edhead. I checked it out and it is doing virtual surgeries. I think this website would be helpful for an anatomy and physiology class. The one negative of the program was that it took a lot of time. They did a large introduction and explained everything very thoroughly. I liked how much it explained the surgery process but if you have already covered the material in class the large introduction just takes more time away from the class.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/websites-for-science-teachers-eric-brunsell
This blog post has ten websites that this science teacher thinks are the most useful for classes. I choose this article because I think it is a good idea to have lots of different resources that way it keeps the class from getting stale and boring. I have started a "Links" page on the website we have for this class for all the useful/interesting educational sites that I have found. I am definitely going to be adding a bunch from this post. The comments had a lot of them as well.
The flexbooks that I read about in the last blog were mentioned in the comments for this blog as well. Something that I hadn't heard about was the scishow channel on youtube. This channel has TONS of short science videos by a guy who (in my opinion) does a good job of keeping them interesting. I really like that he does current event science topics. One of the websites on the blog was called Edhead. I checked it out and it is doing virtual surgeries. I think this website would be helpful for an anatomy and physiology class. The one negative of the program was that it took a lot of time. They did a large introduction and explained everything very thoroughly. I liked how much it explained the surgery process but if you have already covered the material in class the large introduction just takes more time away from the class.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
9/8/12
Reflection on this blog: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/12-education-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2012/
This blog is about different technological areas and the advances that they expect to make in being used for education. The one that I thought will be the most prevalent is gaming. I think more and more games with educational purposes are being made and teachers really need to embrace them. Kids connect with electronics and enjoy them. I am not saying that we should do only electronic activities by any means, I think that the hands on and group activities (ex. making volcanoes, coloring pages etc.) are very important as well. I believe that with the advances our society has been making technologically that we have a lot more variety of activities possible in our everyday classroom.
To be honest, I didn't like how this article was written. I felt like the author repeated things just to make 12 different categories of "trends." Some things I felt had nothing to do with education, they were just for anyone that used technological devices (bandwidth, privacy/security). There were also a couple things that I just didn't really understand (the maker movement).
I actually felt like I learned the most from the comments below. One person commented about a free online textbook. http://goo.gl/U40c0 is the link for the "flexbook" which I found very resourceful. You can look up any grade and any subject matter and they have different options such as National Science Education Standards or the Texas Standard. (Quick interesting fact I learned the other day-Texas has a certain way it wants textbooks done, especially history, and since it is such a largely populated state a lot of publishers cater to their wants) Anyway, the flexbook was really neat because it gave you an idea of what you should be covering and it is a resource your students could use at home if they forgot their textbook at home. It had exercises you could do and it also had links to other websites that pertained to your topic of interest. I know that alot of textbooks you buy these days have their website but I thought this made a good supplemental resource. Something similar that I learned about in high school is khanacademy.org which is this guy that is absolutely brilliant who makes these videos for different subject matter, I found it especially helpful for calculus.
This blog is about different technological areas and the advances that they expect to make in being used for education. The one that I thought will be the most prevalent is gaming. I think more and more games with educational purposes are being made and teachers really need to embrace them. Kids connect with electronics and enjoy them. I am not saying that we should do only electronic activities by any means, I think that the hands on and group activities (ex. making volcanoes, coloring pages etc.) are very important as well. I believe that with the advances our society has been making technologically that we have a lot more variety of activities possible in our everyday classroom.
To be honest, I didn't like how this article was written. I felt like the author repeated things just to make 12 different categories of "trends." Some things I felt had nothing to do with education, they were just for anyone that used technological devices (bandwidth, privacy/security). There were also a couple things that I just didn't really understand (the maker movement).
I actually felt like I learned the most from the comments below. One person commented about a free online textbook. http://goo.gl/U40c0 is the link for the "flexbook" which I found very resourceful. You can look up any grade and any subject matter and they have different options such as National Science Education Standards or the Texas Standard. (Quick interesting fact I learned the other day-Texas has a certain way it wants textbooks done, especially history, and since it is such a largely populated state a lot of publishers cater to their wants) Anyway, the flexbook was really neat because it gave you an idea of what you should be covering and it is a resource your students could use at home if they forgot their textbook at home. It had exercises you could do and it also had links to other websites that pertained to your topic of interest. I know that alot of textbooks you buy these days have their website but I thought this made a good supplemental resource. Something similar that I learned about in high school is khanacademy.org which is this guy that is absolutely brilliant who makes these videos for different subject matter, I found it especially helpful for calculus.
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