Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
1. Firstly, love to use different colors and highlight tools in Microsoft word to type up notes. It helps me stay on task.
2. My calendar on my Kindle Fire is a life saver. It pops up with pictures of my activities for the day and keeps me organized.
3. Wordles are a technology that I will be keeping in mind for future projects and teaching. It helps me to see the responses in a colorful, size relation.
wordle poll
I cannot say that I was truely amazed by the most popular destinations, however I was slightly surprised by the less popular ones. I kind of figured everyone would choose faraway countries and distand lands, but quite a few people chose states here in the U.S.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Double Journal #2
QUOTE:
I enjoyed reading this article. It relates to my response in the previous double entry journal assignment when I stated that every child learns differently. I chose this specific quote because I never really considered myself a visual, auditory, or a kinethetic learner until I read this. I use several of the techniques that Endres describes. For example, not long ago I made a comment to my father that I pay more attention and learn better if I use a colored pen, rather than just plain black. He thought I was crazy, but after reading this article I will have to show him just to prove him wrong. In my event planner, I use red pen for school assignments, green for my daughter's appointments because her middle name is Jade, blue for my appointments, and purple to represent my sorority's events. This helps me to stay organized. Throughout high school I thought that I might want to be a math teacher. That ambition quickly depleated when I found out it wasn't the actually math that I liked, but rather the fact that the teachers always got to use an overhead projector.
I suppose a downside to my strength as a visual learner is the fact that I don't learn very well at all from auditory or kinethetic lessons. Also, when I prepare a lesson or presentation, I use several colors, charts, and other visual aids to enhance my project. I will need to keep in mind for future teaching experiences to try and cater to all learning styles.
"Carole R. Endres, a professor of Economics in the College of Business and Administration (COBA) at Wright State University, described visual learners, on her website, in many domains (Endres, n.d.). One of these domains is the visual students in class. She mentioned that visual learners tend to underline, using different colors, and use charts, pictures, and symbols (Endres, n.d.). For example, if the visual student wants to remember what they read, it is better to use a pen to underline the important points. Also, they can use color to highlight the information. For example, they can highlight the definition in pink; the history background and dates in yellow; and the main idea of the topic or sub topics using green."RESPONSE:
I enjoyed reading this article. It relates to my response in the previous double entry journal assignment when I stated that every child learns differently. I chose this specific quote because I never really considered myself a visual, auditory, or a kinethetic learner until I read this. I use several of the techniques that Endres describes. For example, not long ago I made a comment to my father that I pay more attention and learn better if I use a colored pen, rather than just plain black. He thought I was crazy, but after reading this article I will have to show him just to prove him wrong. In my event planner, I use red pen for school assignments, green for my daughter's appointments because her middle name is Jade, blue for my appointments, and purple to represent my sorority's events. This helps me to stay organized. Throughout high school I thought that I might want to be a math teacher. That ambition quickly depleated when I found out it wasn't the actually math that I liked, but rather the fact that the teachers always got to use an overhead projector.
I suppose a downside to my strength as a visual learner is the fact that I don't learn very well at all from auditory or kinethetic lessons. Also, when I prepare a lesson or presentation, I use several colors, charts, and other visual aids to enhance my project. I will need to keep in mind for future teaching experiences to try and cater to all learning styles.
(I cannot get this picture to be a link! Keeps popping up with "Error on Page")
Web 2.0 and emerging learning technologies/learning styles. (2011, May 19). Retrieved from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/Learning_Styles
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Double Journal #1
Quote:
"A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort. "
Response:
To me, this quote insinuates that students should no longer work alone on their own projects and instead, work as groups. Group work is alright on occasion, but what happens when little Jane is always stuck doing the work for her group while the other members goof off. I for one, absolutely despise group projects. I am an independent worker and a firm believer in "If you want something done right, you must do it yourself." It would be unfair to me and the rest of my work group to have us paired all of the time. I would be stuck doing all of he work and the other children would not learn the lesson.
If we tailor the classroom to digital times, what happens if the power goes out? A pen and paper will still work, but a computer would do nothing but make a good paperweight. Two years ago the electiricity in Fairmont went out for nearly a week in some neighborhoods. If all of their school work was in digital format, they wouldn't have gotten anything done.
I agree that classrooms need to highten their lessons on digital learning, but that should in no way completely remove the ol' reliable, pen and paper.
This article metions Ms. Davidson noticing that her students wrote better blogs than term papers. All students learn differently. For example, it took me all weekend to find out how to add a new entry on my blog. Whereas, I would've felt more comfortable writing a typical research paper. I hope that if and when the digital classroom imerges, there are still open options for all styles of learning.
This is what I think of when I hear about classrooms turning digital.
Resources:
"A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort. "
Response:
To me, this quote insinuates that students should no longer work alone on their own projects and instead, work as groups. Group work is alright on occasion, but what happens when little Jane is always stuck doing the work for her group while the other members goof off. I for one, absolutely despise group projects. I am an independent worker and a firm believer in "If you want something done right, you must do it yourself." It would be unfair to me and the rest of my work group to have us paired all of the time. I would be stuck doing all of he work and the other children would not learn the lesson.
If we tailor the classroom to digital times, what happens if the power goes out? A pen and paper will still work, but a computer would do nothing but make a good paperweight. Two years ago the electiricity in Fairmont went out for nearly a week in some neighborhoods. If all of their school work was in digital format, they wouldn't have gotten anything done.
I agree that classrooms need to highten their lessons on digital learning, but that should in no way completely remove the ol' reliable, pen and paper.
This article metions Ms. Davidson noticing that her students wrote better blogs than term papers. All students learn differently. For example, it took me all weekend to find out how to add a new entry on my blog. Whereas, I would've felt more comfortable writing a typical research paper. I hope that if and when the digital classroom imerges, there are still open options for all styles of learning.
Resources:
Heffernan, V. (2011, August 7). Education needs a digital-age upgrade. New York Times. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade
sustainablelit. (Videographer) (2010). Homework excuses in the digital age [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurRIdpTUPU&feature=player_embedded
Thursday, January 19, 2012
I am from Fairmont, West Virginia. I would like to teach physical education and health at an elementary/middle school level. I thinkt aht children learn best by doing. If you can keep them engaged while learning, they are more likely to retain that infromation and remember the activities as well as the lessons. In phys. ed. class I would try to play "Horse" using different spelling words appropriate for the grade level.
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