Monday, October 10, 2011
The Trouble with Homework
Check out this article. My daughter brought it home from high school and I thought it was too good not to share. The Trouble with Homework by Annie Murphy Paul
Monday, April 11, 2011
In My Classroom
As a teacher of the young elementary grades I think that a class blog will be a great way to introduce the children to technology. While the class can write the blog together, it will also provide excellent ways for the parents to stay up to date in class room activities. An online blog can provide assignment guidelines, helpful hints, links for parents, assignments missed for those absent, newsletters and calendars. Also asking that the students and parents reply to the blog, and topics at least once a month could insure their interaction with the classroom technology.
Wonderful Teaching Tools
I have experienced an amazing tool for teaching with technology in a multidimensional level. This semester I was introduced to the WebQuest. A WebQuest is a self contained online lesson. I had the opportunity to create one of my own and it was a truly rewarding experience. I began by using a Google document template. This is basically a blank slate which outlined the necessary components of the WebQuest. It is astonishing to see how much I contributed to the lesson.
You choose a topic and attach links and resources for the students to explore and build an interacting experience. My WebQuest was not only fun to create, but seeing the finished product was such a feeling of accomplishment. I could not help but thinking," I created this, and children will learn from it!" I guess these are also some of my motivations for teaching.
I would highly recommend WebQuests for classroom activities. I would like to forewarn you though; when cutting and pasting from one format to another the results often require a good deal of tweaking. Depending on your desired final format, I would allow plenty of time to reconstruct the appearance of your quest. When published through Google there are many resources available to help in your creative processes. There are several tutorials and help forums.
For more information you can access the WebQuest home page at http://webquest.org/.
Hello, I am Meghann. I am 25 years old and I hope to get my masters in education. I would love to teach Elementary Education, specifically K-3rd grades. I think that technology will serve a very important role in my classroom. Videos and music are important tools for young children to achieve learning on different levels. There are many styles of learning, and by allowing children to experience multidimensional lessons and multimedia they will experience so much. Children are becoming skilled with technology younger today then ever before, and it will be my job as their teacher to prepare them early on. I plan to introduce my children to computer time, as their future career as students will depend on it. Also I think that a class blog and website may be beneficial for communication with teachers and parents. I am very excited about the possibilities; and to learn as I teach.
Friday, April 8, 2011
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