Reflection

This week I learned how by saving a video clip I can post it on my teacher site for my studnets to watch it, if the video clip ever leaves youtube or teachertube. I find this very helpful for me and my colleges to use help each other with teaching tools. I do plan on using this in my classroom to better help my students learning.

Reflection #9

Reflection #8

The tools I have learned from professional development profile have better helped me to know what I can to help my students learn how to use technology. Everyone today has excess to the internet from their cell phones and lap tops. Many children are using the internet unwisely, and that is where is can come in to help teach them the proper use of technology. When you use technology in the correct way, great things can happen.

Seeing that school district have such wonderful tools to teach the students was neat. I could really see how the students’ learning curve went up when they had technology tools to learn with. If I get the chance to have technology tools in my classroom, I will take advantage of it without any worries.

Did You Know 3.0 Video

This video clip was very interesting. I enjoyed how the video made me think about how technology has grown so much, and how much more it can grow. It was interesting how it compared other countries to the US with population and knowledge. I didn’t know that people today are being trained for jobs that are not real yet. And it was all from how technology is growing so fast.

My Beliefs

I believe that technology use correctly in the classroom can have a positive effect on the students learning. I am a very hand’s on learner, and so are a lot of other people. By using an interactive game to help a students learn their times table better can really benefit them and they get to have fun while learning. But if you only use that math game to fill time until school is out, that is not a very productive time of learning for your students. Technology does need to be used in the classroom, because it is being used everywhere else. Why not have it in the one place where learning takes place every day? I think it can only help the learning to grow even more.

Lessons Learned

I learned how technology has really grown in the last few years and how it will continue to grow. One things that really caught my eye, was how the WWW is a great thing, but also not such a great thing. It is great to be able to get things fast, but it is also teaching the younger generation how to be lazy. The high tech learning was a awesome thing. To be able to have the tools to teach with such great technology would be great. Students from that video were really learning lots of things, and learning it in a way that you could see they could use in more of everyday life. Short hand writing is a very useful technique to use. But I do wonder if some people go over board and use one that are not useful.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Some of my strengths according to the UNI survey was that I was apprentice in most of the questions. My weaknesses were that I didn’t go above apprentice, but went low a few times. One thing I need to work on is learning about and applying my knowledge of equity, ethics, legal, and human issues concerning use of computers and technology. One workshop that I would need to attend, is to update my knowledge about the ethics of technology. Learning more about this can only help me by understanding more of the proper use of technology in the classroom. I need to use the world wide web more often to find educational information to help me in my future classroom.