Sunday, February 26, 2012
Blog Post #5
Don't Teach Your Kids This Stuff. Please?
In The post Dr. McLeod speaks of how parents should keep their kids away from computers. This would actually wind up hurting your children in the longrun because of how connected the world and it's people are to computers. I think he takes it to the extreme because he is only being a father. Computers are notoriously dangerous because of sexual predators and various types of perverts. Dr. McLeod describes himself as a solution builder, idea generator, and a catalyst, all of which are shown through his post.
The Ischool Initiative
I enjoyed almost every aspect of Travis Allen's videos. I think his ischool idea is absolutely brilliant. He does a great job of revealing how he plans to use the ipod Touch to change the world of education. He speaks in the video about the ongoing problem within the U.S. education system. I think his idea of an electronic school is not only amazing, but could also work. Parents are required to spend hundreds of dollars each year for school supplies and books. The beauty of the ischool is the only thing you must purchase is a version of an ipod touch, which usually costs around $150. Everything else you need is available through itunes which is an easy-axcess system that runs most of Apple's products.
After obtaining your ipod and familiarizing yourself with it's software, class is about to begin. Another great thing about Travis' idea is that all the textbooks needed are available on your ipod. Being able to download your books will not only save tons of money, but also our environment. The use of the applications shown in the video,allows students to focus on certain areas in which they've had problems in the past. The Calender application that is shown allows teachers and students to keep track of their assignments and important dates. The video helped me out by showing the U.S. Constitution application, which will be a major help in Government. I support Travis' idea one hundred percent and hope he gets the help he needs in order to make his vision a reality.
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
In the video, Whitacre takes 185 people from around the globe and creates a majestic choir performance unlike no other. This use of the internet is absolutely amazing. As pointed out in Jennifer's post, one of the most unique things about the performance is that none of the performers had ever met. This video is just another great example to show how much technology has evolved. The entire video was composed over the internet by 185 strangers that had never praticed or performed together. This use of the internet could be utilized in the future in order to bring the people of the world closer together.
Teaching In The 21st Century
In the video Teaching in the 21st Century, Roberts gives his views of what teaching will be like in the future. Because of quickly evolving technology, teachers are no longer a main source for information. Now all a student has to do is jump on the internet and type in a question. In order to not become obsolete, the teachers of the future must be ready for a new style of teaching. The technology of tomorrow is astounding, but who's going to show them how to use it? That's why teachers, in order to better prepare students, must learn how to use these tools themselves.
Reading Rockets
After reviewing the website Reading Rockets, I found various tools to help children on their way to becoming readers. The website points out the major problem of children in America lacking reading skills. In today's society, not only must you know how to read, but also you need to be able to do so with ease. Another problem with not being a sufficient reader is the lack of comprehending. In order for a student to be able to fully understand what they're reading, they must have the ability to comprehend what they read. The webpage offers various videos and other tools, such as podcasts, to help children with reading comprehension. The site also takes a different approach by having tabs at the top in order to categorize it for the student's parents, teachers, and principal for additional help.
The page also breaks down the aspects of reading into seperate categories. This feature allows the reader to focus on the areas where he/she is having problems. For example, if a child is having problems with the phonics aspect of reading, the website has an entire section on ways to help strengthen that area. In order to learn how to become a better reader, it helps to have something you enjoy reading. Thats why the site offers a list of suggested books and authors for children. Finally, they also have their own show on T.V. in order to help them learn from home. This website is a tool that can be extremely useful in helping develop a new generation of readers.
In The post Dr. McLeod speaks of how parents should keep their kids away from computers. This would actually wind up hurting your children in the longrun because of how connected the world and it's people are to computers. I think he takes it to the extreme because he is only being a father. Computers are notoriously dangerous because of sexual predators and various types of perverts. Dr. McLeod describes himself as a solution builder, idea generator, and a catalyst, all of which are shown through his post.
The Ischool Initiative
I enjoyed almost every aspect of Travis Allen's videos. I think his ischool idea is absolutely brilliant. He does a great job of revealing how he plans to use the ipod Touch to change the world of education. He speaks in the video about the ongoing problem within the U.S. education system. I think his idea of an electronic school is not only amazing, but could also work. Parents are required to spend hundreds of dollars each year for school supplies and books. The beauty of the ischool is the only thing you must purchase is a version of an ipod touch, which usually costs around $150. Everything else you need is available through itunes which is an easy-axcess system that runs most of Apple's products.
After obtaining your ipod and familiarizing yourself with it's software, class is about to begin. Another great thing about Travis' idea is that all the textbooks needed are available on your ipod. Being able to download your books will not only save tons of money, but also our environment. The use of the applications shown in the video,allows students to focus on certain areas in which they've had problems in the past. The Calender application that is shown allows teachers and students to keep track of their assignments and important dates. The video helped me out by showing the U.S. Constitution application, which will be a major help in Government. I support Travis' idea one hundred percent and hope he gets the help he needs in order to make his vision a reality.
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
In the video, Whitacre takes 185 people from around the globe and creates a majestic choir performance unlike no other. This use of the internet is absolutely amazing. As pointed out in Jennifer's post, one of the most unique things about the performance is that none of the performers had ever met. This video is just another great example to show how much technology has evolved. The entire video was composed over the internet by 185 strangers that had never praticed or performed together. This use of the internet could be utilized in the future in order to bring the people of the world closer together.
Teaching In The 21st Century
In the video Teaching in the 21st Century, Roberts gives his views of what teaching will be like in the future. Because of quickly evolving technology, teachers are no longer a main source for information. Now all a student has to do is jump on the internet and type in a question. In order to not become obsolete, the teachers of the future must be ready for a new style of teaching. The technology of tomorrow is astounding, but who's going to show them how to use it? That's why teachers, in order to better prepare students, must learn how to use these tools themselves.
Reading Rockets
After reviewing the website Reading Rockets, I found various tools to help children on their way to becoming readers. The website points out the major problem of children in America lacking reading skills. In today's society, not only must you know how to read, but also you need to be able to do so with ease. Another problem with not being a sufficient reader is the lack of comprehending. In order for a student to be able to fully understand what they're reading, they must have the ability to comprehend what they read. The webpage offers various videos and other tools, such as podcasts, to help children with reading comprehension. The site also takes a different approach by having tabs at the top in order to categorize it for the student's parents, teachers, and principal for additional help.
The page also breaks down the aspects of reading into seperate categories. This feature allows the reader to focus on the areas where he/she is having problems. For example, if a child is having problems with the phonics aspect of reading, the website has an entire section on ways to help strengthen that area. In order to learn how to become a better reader, it helps to have something you enjoy reading. Thats why the site offers a list of suggested books and authors for children. Finally, they also have their own show on T.V. in order to help them learn from home. This website is a tool that can be extremely useful in helping develop a new generation of readers.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Blog Post 4
Podcasting in the Classroom
The first video I chose to view in order to gain ideas for our upcoming podcast assignment was Joe Dale's Podcasting in the Classroom. The video reviews the various ways that podcasting can be beneficial in the classroom. As stated in the video, most people born after 1980 have never known a life without technology. One of the biggest problems in the classroom today is being able to keep someone's attention long enough for them to learn, that's where podcasting comes in. The video informs that podcasts can be set up in various ways, such as videos or voice recordings. Another way to use podcasts is for an outline to help students follow along with a certain subject. Mr. Dale uses this type of podcast in the video. One thing that I learned from the video is that the podcast is posted onto Itunes. This opens many new possibilities, such as allowing sick or absent students to complete their assignments on time. Podcasts are an excellent tool that should be used for years to come.
How to Create a Podcast
The video How to Create a Podcast is a great way to learn how to get started making your own podcast. It starts off by introducing the viewer to a free online software program named Audacity. Audacity is a program used to create and edit recorded clips that make up your podcast. The video walks you through step by step on how to get your podcast ready to publish by downloading or opening a few simple files. After you have finished editing your podcast and it is complete, you're ready to upload the file on the host site Podango.com. After using Podango, there are a few more steps leading up to the website Mypodcast.com. This website allows you to record, publish, and air your podcast. Finally, the last step is submitting your podcast to a search engine, In which the video suggests the site Podcast411.com. This video gave me valuable tips on my way to getting started creating podcasts.
Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting
In Ms. Rosenthal's Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting post, she touches base on a very important tool of podcasting, listening. She explains how important hearing all the aspects of a word is. The aspects of a word are key to learning what it truly means. Ms. Rosenthal's goal is for the listener to not only hear the sounds of the letters that make up the word, but also it's embedded context, the melody of it's sentence, and the words that lead to and follow it. All of these aspects come together and allow the listener to grasp the meaning and better understand what he/she is listening to. The article also points out that the podcasts can be used to help someone who is trying to learn a new language by hearing the words and learning how they are spoken.The use of the Smartboard tool,a user-friendly editing tool, allows the students to work on the podcast as a group with ease. This is another great example of how the podcast tool is used to help students become better teachers. This article taught me to pay close attention to the pronunciation of my words in my podcast.
The first video I chose to view in order to gain ideas for our upcoming podcast assignment was Joe Dale's Podcasting in the Classroom. The video reviews the various ways that podcasting can be beneficial in the classroom. As stated in the video, most people born after 1980 have never known a life without technology. One of the biggest problems in the classroom today is being able to keep someone's attention long enough for them to learn, that's where podcasting comes in. The video informs that podcasts can be set up in various ways, such as videos or voice recordings. Another way to use podcasts is for an outline to help students follow along with a certain subject. Mr. Dale uses this type of podcast in the video. One thing that I learned from the video is that the podcast is posted onto Itunes. This opens many new possibilities, such as allowing sick or absent students to complete their assignments on time. Podcasts are an excellent tool that should be used for years to come.
How to Create a Podcast
The video How to Create a Podcast is a great way to learn how to get started making your own podcast. It starts off by introducing the viewer to a free online software program named Audacity. Audacity is a program used to create and edit recorded clips that make up your podcast. The video walks you through step by step on how to get your podcast ready to publish by downloading or opening a few simple files. After you have finished editing your podcast and it is complete, you're ready to upload the file on the host site Podango.com. After using Podango, there are a few more steps leading up to the website Mypodcast.com. This website allows you to record, publish, and air your podcast. Finally, the last step is submitting your podcast to a search engine, In which the video suggests the site Podcast411.com. This video gave me valuable tips on my way to getting started creating podcasts.
Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting
In Ms. Rosenthal's Listening-Comprehension-Podcasting post, she touches base on a very important tool of podcasting, listening. She explains how important hearing all the aspects of a word is. The aspects of a word are key to learning what it truly means. Ms. Rosenthal's goal is for the listener to not only hear the sounds of the letters that make up the word, but also it's embedded context, the melody of it's sentence, and the words that lead to and follow it. All of these aspects come together and allow the listener to grasp the meaning and better understand what he/she is listening to. The article also points out that the podcasts can be used to help someone who is trying to learn a new language by hearing the words and learning how they are spoken.The use of the Smartboard tool,a user-friendly editing tool, allows the students to work on the podcast as a group with ease. This is another great example of how the podcast tool is used to help students become better teachers. This article taught me to pay close attention to the pronunciation of my words in my podcast.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Blog Post #3
Technology in Special Education
Technology is rapidly changing each day, as Mrs. Tyler points out in the video. In the field of special education new technology allows many special needs students to succeed where they failed in the past. Mrs. Tyler does a great job comparing the old special needs technology to the technology used today. The old technology shown in the video,such as the reading chart, was in need of immediate updating. The advancement in technology allows the kids to do various things they could'nt do before, such as read and write. New technology is needed in the classroom today in order to better serve the special needs students.
Many of the tools in the video are commonly used throughout society today, such as computers. The computers used by the students are designed to allow them to interact with the class in various ways. The technology also makes them more willing to learn because they enjoy using the computers more than they did the old reading charts. Another tool used in the video that helped the kids was the ibooks application. This tool allowed a special needs student to listen to and comprehend a book the class was reading, in which he had problems with in the past.The video is a great example of how advancement in technology is always needed. I support the idea Mrs. Tyler proposes in the video and encourage schools to do so also worldwide.
How the Ipad works with Academics for Autism
The app I would most likely choose would be the Kids Writing Pad. Alothough it is shown in the video, I chose this app because it helps in many different areas, not just one. First, It allows practice in writing through the use of the pecil and touchscreen. Secondly, it helps the child with spelling because they must spell the word out in order to write it. Finally, it helps the child with pronunciation of words, after writing the word they can spell it out loud on the app. I've been debating on whether or not to purchase an Ipad, and have chosen to do so in order to better prepare myself as a teacher.
Gary's Social Media Count
Gary's Social Media Count shows how much society, as a whole, uses uses the internet worldwide. This is a result of advancements in computer technology. In order to be prepared to teach the citizens of tomorrow, I must be familiar with most of the programs listed. The use of online tools, such as social networks, has reached alltime highs in recent years. One of the main reasons these components continue to grow is because of how easily they are used. A person can now send messages globally in a matter of seconds, and the rate is steadily growing.
In many ways, these facts are scarey to many people that actually realize what they're looking at. The growth of technology is not exactly slowing down either. There are constantly advancements being made in order to make our lives easier. With greater population comes higher demand for efficient products, such as the ipad, Droid, or any Apple product.
Technology is rapidly changing each day, as Mrs. Tyler points out in the video. In the field of special education new technology allows many special needs students to succeed where they failed in the past. Mrs. Tyler does a great job comparing the old special needs technology to the technology used today. The old technology shown in the video,such as the reading chart, was in need of immediate updating. The advancement in technology allows the kids to do various things they could'nt do before, such as read and write. New technology is needed in the classroom today in order to better serve the special needs students.
Many of the tools in the video are commonly used throughout society today, such as computers. The computers used by the students are designed to allow them to interact with the class in various ways. The technology also makes them more willing to learn because they enjoy using the computers more than they did the old reading charts. Another tool used in the video that helped the kids was the ibooks application. This tool allowed a special needs student to listen to and comprehend a book the class was reading, in which he had problems with in the past.The video is a great example of how advancement in technology is always needed. I support the idea Mrs. Tyler proposes in the video and encourage schools to do so also worldwide.
How the Ipad works with Academics for Autism
The app I would most likely choose would be the Kids Writing Pad. Alothough it is shown in the video, I chose this app because it helps in many different areas, not just one. First, It allows practice in writing through the use of the pecil and touchscreen. Secondly, it helps the child with spelling because they must spell the word out in order to write it. Finally, it helps the child with pronunciation of words, after writing the word they can spell it out loud on the app. I've been debating on whether or not to purchase an Ipad, and have chosen to do so in order to better prepare myself as a teacher.
Gary's Social Media Count
Gary's Social Media Count shows how much society, as a whole, uses uses the internet worldwide. This is a result of advancements in computer technology. In order to be prepared to teach the citizens of tomorrow, I must be familiar with most of the programs listed. The use of online tools, such as social networks, has reached alltime highs in recent years. One of the main reasons these components continue to grow is because of how easily they are used. A person can now send messages globally in a matter of seconds, and the rate is steadily growing.
In many ways, these facts are scarey to many people that actually realize what they're looking at. The growth of technology is not exactly slowing down either. There are constantly advancements being made in order to make our lives easier. With greater population comes higher demand for efficient products, such as the ipad, Droid, or any Apple product.
C4T 1
In Fisch's Crowdsource My Basement Design, he is asking for input on any ideas to help him remodel his basement. the idea is for the reader to gain a picture of the remodeled basement in his/her head. With the help of pictures, and a blue-print layout, the design of the basement is brought to life.
The post Ideas I'd Like My Future Principal to Consider:The Schedule, One of the biggest problems within the American High School system is scheduling. Fisch uses this article to show the various problems that the system of scheduling has. He talks about a new type of schedule that the high school he works for has began using, The Variable Schedule. The Variable Schedule is very similar to that of today's college schedule. This schedule allows students to learn how to deal with unscheduled time, work and life, and grow deeper relationships with teachers. The high school schedule system that is used today was developed in 1967, which shows how badly our education system needs to deal with this problem.
In my first comment, I recommended a brand of appliances for Mr. Fisch to use in his basement. The reason I chose to do so is because I have roughly five years of experience in the Appliance repair business and thought I might could help out. In my second comment, I supported the descision to adopt a new style of scheduling in high school systems. The new type of schedule is known as Variable Schedule. The reason I chose to support the new schedule was because the schedule system used today is based off studies from 1967.
The post Ideas I'd Like My Future Principal to Consider:The Schedule, One of the biggest problems within the American High School system is scheduling. Fisch uses this article to show the various problems that the system of scheduling has. He talks about a new type of schedule that the high school he works for has began using, The Variable Schedule. The Variable Schedule is very similar to that of today's college schedule. This schedule allows students to learn how to deal with unscheduled time, work and life, and grow deeper relationships with teachers. The high school schedule system that is used today was developed in 1967, which shows how badly our education system needs to deal with this problem.
In my first comment, I recommended a brand of appliances for Mr. Fisch to use in his basement. The reason I chose to do so is because I have roughly five years of experience in the Appliance repair business and thought I might could help out. In my second comment, I supported the descision to adopt a new style of scheduling in high school systems. The new type of schedule is known as Variable Schedule. The reason I chose to support the new schedule was because the schedule system used today is based off studies from 1967.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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