Newsletter/Flyer Reflection

I am glad that I was forced to come up with a newsletter and flyer as the final project by myself. The other projects during the course have been beneficial, but I have learned more because I was forced to do this on my own. Computer technology has not been a strong area for me since I am not a traditional student and computer technology was more primitive when I was first a student. This class and various projects have forced my out of my comfort zone and have made me more aware of the vast technological world out there and the dire need to utilize what we have available to us. I know that technology is essential in the educational field and am better equipted to use technology in my future classroom and curriculum.

Do You Believe in Me? Video Reflection

I truly got a kick out of this young man, Dalton Sherman, who so bravely inquired of his adult audience if they believed in him and his fellow students. He pleaded to convince his audience that they held in their power to positively influence his generation. He implored that his audience must first believe in themselves and that their most important job was this duty. He insisted that every position within the school system is vitally important. He was very sucessful in his plea as he earned a standing ovation from his audience. I was touhed by his message in that we are so vitally important to all of our future students. They will be relying on us to believe in ourselves first and to then believe in them. We must dedicate our future professions to this calling, after all they, our future students, will need us to.

More on technology

There are so many many tools out there to adapt and use. I especially liked working with power point and putting together an acrostic for my classroom. It not only will help students with learning some basic principles of the importance of exercise and fitness, but can further promote technology. It is imperative that we keep up with our ever changing world in order to provide the most beneficial education for our students. It we don't, we will be left in the dust.

Todays Technology

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Noun: A Person, Place or Thing Video Reflection

At first I felt like this video was more geared to the younger grades because its a cartoon, but then I felt like the content would be a little advanced for the younger grades. It was appropriate for middle to older grades, but maybe a little childish in the presentation. I thought the other video using live actors who were chanting or used more popular music would be more appealing to the older grades. But as I continued, I thought the song became catchy and mostly thought it was appealing overall. It definetely taught and instilled the concept of what a noun is and where we can expect to find them.

Technology Tools in Education

This week we have been further instructed to consider how these tools might benefit our students in future classrooms. I have spent several hours surfing educational tools in the internet and there is a extremely wide selection of wonderful and educational technological tools available to us. It would be a disservice to our students to not use and teach with these tools in order to broaden their minds with what is available to us.

The connected classroom video reflection

This video was similiar to many we have seen this semester, imploring us as educators to keep up the the rapidly growing pace of modern technology. It astounds me the comparison of both
China and India to us here and it scares me the reprecussions of not doing our part to try to keep up. We will obviously never catch up to their population or even their technology, but if we don't educate our students in that direction, we will be squished. It is our duty and our responsibilty to not hold our students back. They are our future leaders and we must strive to push them in that direction and not hold them back. We cannot be old school. We must focus on technology and our future.

Kidspiration/Inspriration Reflection

I was really impressed and excited about the kidspiration and inspiration lesson. I feel that this will be a great tool to use in my future classroom. I realize that there are still many who feel like having real hands on type of activities are more beneficial and I do still feel like they have there place. However, we are in a technological world and having benficial activities that promote creative learning for our students will be necessary. I spent along time with the various activities on there 2 sites and I know that my students will be able to learn from what they have to offer. In our world we need to help our students have access to technological resources, not only for learning but for fun as well.