Titzel, Art. "3 Teaching Ideas Whose Time Has Come." Digital Learning Environment Blogs (2010): All.
The journal I read was about the technological differences between today and 2001. The blogger said that the change from 1901 to 2001 was not really all that big of a change comparatively to the last 10 years. He talks about how the classroom needs to be more rooted in technology because that is what the kids have grown up in. In 2001 I was about halfway through my schooling, and the students I will be teaching had not been born then. It makes me feel old. The technology from then on the other hand, is ancient. Social media is now a very big deal in the lives of Americans and should not be left out of education, says the author. It is a place where things can be talked about debated and learned. “Students need access to educational social networks so they can talk, debate, question, share, and disagree with one another at any time of the day or night.” This will allow a learning environment where students can learn not only from their teachers but from peers and other experts in the field.
The author also talks about getting flipped. This is when a teacher starts to assign things they would normally assign for classwork as homework, and things they would normally assign for homework as classwork. Course content is not easily accessible outside of the classroom and homework becomes more meaningful and prepares for actual learning. The homework now does what it is supposed to do, prepare the students for actual learning.
Article 2
Hargadon, Steve. "Web 2.0 is the Future of Education." Educational Technology (2008): All.
The journal I read was about web 2.0 and how it is the future of education. The author wrote that it will change teaching as drastically as the printing press did years ago. He wrote on 10 trends that will be changing with web 2.0. The first trend is how publishing will change because instead of just going one way, more and more people are adding ideas and creativity that the internet and 2.0 tools are going to be used in conversation. The second trend is the gross amount of information that is coming, the author states that it will be a title wave. The third trend is that everything will have participation involved. Everything will be reviewed and commented on. The fourth trend is that producers will become consumers at the same time, producing and consuming. The fifth trend is on group work and collaboration. There will be an extreme increase in collaboration. The sixth trend is on the explosion of innovation. The seventh trend is that everyone will have access to study material from thousands of colleges all over the world. The eighth trend is that social leaning will become more of a focal point in education. Students will be much more involved in the classroom and learning will take on a new look. The ninth trend is that everything is so available on the internet. There is so much information out there and readily available for our students to absorb. The tenth trend is social networking taking everything to the next level of use. Everyone will be using social networking in some way.
The author then goes on to talk about how to get into using web 2.0. He talks about getting started by lurking and then participating. Getting involved in this online media can be scary at first, so take it slow. Then he goes on to talk about how the education of youth needs to be a public discussion and that how you are going to attack teaching needs to be a public thing that other people can see and collaborate and comment on.
Article 3
Horrocks, Michael. "How to use twitter to learn a new language." Edudemic (2012):All
The journal I read was about twitter and how it is a great tool to learn a new language. The article itself was short and sweet, just like twitter, which many would see as a setback for twitter helping one to learn a new language. But Horrocks believes that this is a positive for twitter. Having a 140 character limit twitter keeps the learning short and often. It is also far less daunting to try and decipher a tweet than it is to use tradition methods. The author gave several other point for twitter being a great idea to use as a tool for language learning. The biggest plus for me is that it is free. Rosetta stone at its lowest level is 200 dollars, but you can follow @rossettastone for free. This is perfect for college kids and teachers alike. Also on twitter there are about 500 million people connected from nearly every single country around the world. So rather than buying every different language book, you can simply sign up for twitter and follow someone from China to help learn Chinese. The last thing the author covered is that you can choose your own interests in what you follow and how you go about learning the language. And if I have learned anything in education classes, if you have the interest of your students, they will learn much easier and faster. Yet another reason to use twitter for learning a new language.
I would have never thought of using social media to acquire a new language, but after reading this article I do not think I would ever pay for anything to help me with a task such as this. It seems too good to be true, so maybe I'll have to give it a shot someday and see if I can use twitter to learn German. It's short and sweet, free and I can learn in short bursts to help keep my interest up, and hopefully I will be able to blend in with the Germans when I head back to Deutschland.
This journal is all about iPads being implemented in schools and how students and teachers are using them. Some educators believe they are good for motivating kids to learn because they are "in" in the technology world. The iPads are fresh on the market and while this is good for getting kids attention, the company is still working out a few kinks. But there is more than just the fad factor in classroom usefulness. With a batter life of 8 to 10 hours and weighing just over a pound the iPad is more portable and takes less time to start up than laptops, and the screen size is better than smartphone or iPods. A literacy and tech coordinator said that the iPad surpassed every specification the school thought was important. In Virginia some of the things the school was trying to do with the iPads was just too rich for the students at the school. The teacher had to abandon much of the use of the iPads. Some of the other teachers were able to adapt and find better apps for the iPads to keep using them. They said it was a work in progress.
I think that this article did a good job of showing the potential of iPads in the classroom with real stories of the use of them in different schools. Some schools thought it was great and others were more on the fence about it. I think that in time the iPads will be a great help in the classroom, especially in the K-8 classrooms. I think that one teacher brought up a great point in that the work that high school students do with composition cannot be done on iPads, we still need computers for that kind of work.
Article 5
This article is about how cell phones can be used in the classroom and a persuasion to why they should be accepted into the classroom. It starts off telling the all of the bad ways cell phones are used by students today, such as disruptive texting and calling, to bullying and harassment. Then the article talks about school implementing the use of cell phones in the classroom. The cell phones worked okay at first, then when they started using more of the phones capabilities it started to work even better. The video recording function worked great for the teacher being able to view lit group discussions. The article then goes on to talking about how cell phones are a part of everyday life today, and teaching the kids how to use them properly is something educators need to do.
Most teachers see cell phones as social gadgets that have no place in the classroom. They see them as tools for cheating, and have been hard on the idea to bring them into classroom because of the bad that can be done with them. But cell phones are a part of every Americans daily life, and kids are going to grow up with them in there hands almost all of the time. Why should we take them out of their hands at school? We need to embrace the technology and use it in a positive way. When kids have the ability to use them in a restricted fashion they do not use them in poor ways. The possibilities of using cell phones for learning is endless, we need to come to terms with what we used to think cell phones were, and move on to the next generation.
Titzel, Art. "3 Teaching Ideas Whose Time Has Come." Digital Learning Environment Blogs (2010): All.
The journal I read was about the technological differences between today and 2001. The blogger said that the change from 1901 to 2001 was not really all that big of a change comparatively to the last 10 years. He talks about how the classroom needs to be more rooted in technology because that is what the kids have grown up in. In 2001 I was about halfway through my schooling, and the students I will be teaching had not been born then. It makes me feel old. The technology from then on the other hand, is ancient. Social media is now a very big deal in the lives of Americans and should not be left out of education, says the author. It is a place where things can be talked about debated and learned. “Students need access to educational social networks so they can talk, debate, question, share, and disagree with one another at any time of the day or night.” This will allow a learning environment where students can learn not only from their teachers but from peers and other experts in the field.
The author also talks about getting flipped. This is when a teacher starts to assign things they would normally assign for classwork as homework, and things they would normally assign for homework as classwork. Course content is not easily accessible outside of the classroom and homework becomes more meaningful and prepares for actual learning. The homework now does what it is supposed to do, prepare the students for actual learning.
Article 2
Hargadon, Steve. "Web 2.0 is the Future of Education." Educational Technology (2008): All.
The journal I read was about web 2.0 and how it is the future of education. The author wrote that it will change teaching as drastically as the printing press did years ago. He wrote on 10 trends that will be changing with web 2.0. The first trend is how publishing will change because instead of just going one way, more and more people are adding ideas and creativity that the internet and 2.0 tools are going to be used in conversation. The second trend is the gross amount of information that is coming, the author states that it will be a title wave. The third trend is that everything will have participation involved. Everything will be reviewed and commented on. The fourth trend is that producers will become consumers at the same time, producing and consuming. The fifth trend is on group work and collaboration. There will be an extreme increase in collaboration. The sixth trend is on the explosion of innovation. The seventh trend is that everyone will have access to study material from thousands of colleges all over the world. The eighth trend is that social leaning will become more of a focal point in education. Students will be much more involved in the classroom and learning will take on a new look. The ninth trend is that everything is so available on the internet. There is so much information out there and readily available for our students to absorb. The tenth trend is social networking taking everything to the next level of use. Everyone will be using social networking in some way.
The author then goes on to talk about how to get into using web 2.0. He talks about getting started by lurking and then participating. Getting involved in this online media can be scary at first, so take it slow. Then he goes on to talk about how the education of youth needs to be a public discussion and that how you are going to attack teaching needs to be a public thing that other people can see and collaborate and comment on.
Article 3
Horrocks, Michael. "How to use twitter to learn a new language." Edudemic (2012):All
The journal I read was about twitter and how it is a great tool to learn a new language. The article itself was short and sweet, just like twitter, which many would see as a setback for twitter helping one to learn a new language. But Horrocks believes that this is a positive for twitter. Having a 140 character limit twitter keeps the learning short and often. It is also far less daunting to try and decipher a tweet than it is to use tradition methods. The author gave several other point for twitter being a great idea to use as a tool for language learning. The biggest plus for me is that it is free. Rosetta stone at its lowest level is 200 dollars, but you can follow @rossettastone for free. This is perfect for college kids and teachers alike. Also on twitter there are about 500 million people connected from nearly every single country around the world. So rather than buying every different language book, you can simply sign up for twitter and follow someone from China to help learn Chinese. The last thing the author covered is that you can choose your own interests in what you follow and how you go about learning the language. And if I have learned anything in education classes, if you have the interest of your students, they will learn much easier and faster. Yet another reason to use twitter for learning a new language.
I would have never thought of using social media to acquire a new language, but after reading this article I do not think I would ever pay for anything to help me with a task such as this. It seems too good to be true, so maybe I'll have to give it a shot someday and see if I can use twitter to learn German. It's short and sweet, free and I can learn in short bursts to help keep my interest up, and hopefully I will be able to blend in with the Germans when I head back to Deutschland.
Article 4
Quillen, Ian. "Educators evaluate learning benefits of iPad." Education Week (2011):All
This journal is all about iPads being implemented in schools and how students and teachers are using them. Some educators believe they are good for motivating kids to learn because they are "in" in the technology world. The iPads are fresh on the market and while this is good for getting kids attention, the company is still working out a few kinks. But there is more than just the fad factor in classroom usefulness. With a batter life of 8 to 10 hours and weighing just over a pound the iPad is more portable and takes less time to start up than laptops, and the screen size is better than smartphone or iPods. A literacy and tech coordinator said that the iPad surpassed every specification the school thought was important. In Virginia some of the things the school was trying to do with the iPads was just too rich for the students at the school. The teacher had to abandon much of the use of the iPads. Some of the other teachers were able to adapt and find better apps for the iPads to keep using them. They said it was a work in progress.
I think that this article did a good job of showing the potential of iPads in the classroom with real stories of the use of them in different schools. Some schools thought it was great and others were more on the fence about it. I think that in time the iPads will be a great help in the classroom, especially in the K-8 classrooms. I think that one teacher brought up a great point in that the work that high school students do with composition cannot be done on iPads, we still need computers for that kind of work.
Article 5
This article is about how cell phones can be used in the classroom and a persuasion to why they should be accepted into the classroom. It starts off telling the all of the bad ways cell phones are used by students today, such as disruptive texting and calling, to bullying and harassment. Then the article talks about school implementing the use of cell phones in the classroom. The cell phones worked okay at first, then when they started using more of the phones capabilities it started to work even better. The video recording function worked great for the teacher being able to view lit group discussions. The article then goes on to talking about how cell phones are a part of everyday life today, and teaching the kids how to use them properly is something educators need to do.
Most teachers see cell phones as social gadgets that have no place in the classroom. They see them as tools for cheating, and have been hard on the idea to bring them into classroom because of the bad that can be done with them. But cell phones are a part of every Americans daily life, and kids are going to grow up with them in there hands almost all of the time. Why should we take them out of their hands at school? We need to embrace the technology and use it in a positive way. When kids have the ability to use them in a restricted fashion they do not use them in poor ways. The possibilities of using cell phones for learning is endless, we need to come to terms with what we used to think cell phones were, and move on to the next generation.