A major topic of our ICT this week and last week! How will we as educators use technology in our classroom? Will technology access be monitored/filtered/allowed? Better yet, what is safe internet usage? Many schools today are not allowing it and some are embracing technology and introducing it into the classrooms. The "safe" answer to this question is the age old answer, anything in moderation is appropriate.
I believe that the generation of students I will be teaching must be taught using technology. Part of teaching these students the amazing learning tools using tech are teaching what is safe and acceptable. Technology should be a privilege for students and should be used for fun learning and not "free time". The amount I am learning in my technology course is beyond valuable. I am learning about new education tools that I can use in my future classroom and our students should have the same learning opportunity.
Distraction will always be a disadvantage in a classroom but if a student does not want to participate they will find a pencil distracting. It is our job as future educators to engage students. If they are not engaged are they really learning?
Monday, January 28, 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Cold Snap
Wow! Is it ever cold out this week! Time to stay inside and get caught up on homework!
My ICT class was fortunate enough to have a special presentation in our class. Andy McKiel and Darren Kuropatwa gave me a wonderful insight on amazing websites to create even more amazing classroom tools.
We started out by discussing "Why __________ matters in education." This was a great question to ask myself as a pre-service teacher. There are so many important aspects to teaching, but for today I chose listening. We were then asked to find an image that represented this. The search engine compfight.com.com has images available to share legally when using creative commons. Once we found a picture we logged on to pixlr.com and began to edit our photo. The finished products were very powerful.
I will let you look at mine and maybe try making your own! :)
My ICT class was fortunate enough to have a special presentation in our class. Andy McKiel and Darren Kuropatwa gave me a wonderful insight on amazing websites to create even more amazing classroom tools.
We started out by discussing "Why __________ matters in education." This was a great question to ask myself as a pre-service teacher. There are so many important aspects to teaching, but for today I chose listening. We were then asked to find an image that represented this. The search engine compfight.com.com has images available to share legally when using creative commons. Once we found a picture we logged on to pixlr.com and began to edit our photo. The finished products were very powerful.
I will let you look at mine and maybe try making your own! :)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Dropbox is a dream...
Hey!! Guess what?! Using dropbox is super easy! This a great tool that I will most definitely use for a long time! At first, I didn't know what the heck to do but once I started playing around with it I learned how to use and why I would use it! As a pre-service teacher I have many documents saved on my computer and USB drive but sometimes find myself loosing things I need somewhere in the middle. This is the solution to that problem! I love that I can access what I need from any computer and, even better, my iphone! Definitely a must on the checklist of new tech resources to use when I'm teaching!
Here is a link to the site! www.dropbox.com
-Miss D.
Here is a link to the site! www.dropbox.com
-Miss D.
Word Splash
As a brief catch up on what I learned last week - wordle
Words splashes can be used in many classrooms at any age. The word splash we created on our first day of class was a great ice breaker about technology! Whether it is scary, interesting, intriguing, or confusing it can all be documented in a word splash! In an older grade each student could create their own word splash or in the earlier years creating a word splash together could be a great part of a KWL.
Here is one I created about teaching Science in an early years class...
Check it out!
www.wordle.net
-Miss D.
Words splashes can be used in many classrooms at any age. The word splash we created on our first day of class was a great ice breaker about technology! Whether it is scary, interesting, intriguing, or confusing it can all be documented in a word splash! In an older grade each student could create their own word splash or in the earlier years creating a word splash together could be a great part of a KWL.
Here is one I created about teaching Science in an early years class...
Check it out!
www.wordle.net
-Miss D.
Rookie Blogger
Wow! This is my first blog ever! I have now joined the world of internet blogging! I am very excited for this new adventure of learning and exploring what I can do on the world wide web!
An assignment in my university ICT course (Using Information and Communication Technology in Education) has brought me to www.blogger.com to explore the use of a blog. After creating and designing my blog I was stumped at what to write first.
My goal of this blog is reflect and utilize new tech resources that I have learned in my class that I will be able to use in my future classroom.
Blogging weekly (atleast) is my first goal. After becoming comfortable with blogging I would like to expand my journey to creating a website!
Follow me on this journey of exploring and learning! Stay tuned for more info!
-Miss D.
An assignment in my university ICT course (Using Information and Communication Technology in Education) has brought me to www.blogger.com to explore the use of a blog. After creating and designing my blog I was stumped at what to write first.
My goal of this blog is reflect and utilize new tech resources that I have learned in my class that I will be able to use in my future classroom.
Blogging weekly (atleast) is my first goal. After becoming comfortable with blogging I would like to expand my journey to creating a website!
Follow me on this journey of exploring and learning! Stay tuned for more info!
-Miss D.
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