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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b style="background-color: white;">My experience during my EME2040 online class has been extremely
informative and challenging at the same time. I haven’t always been the
strongest when it came to computers and electronics but after taking this
course my knowledge has increased greatly. The skills I have gained from this
class are skills I can actually use in my classroom someday. I have gained
knowledge especially in critical thinking, communication, and technology/
information management. I really enjoyed creating the weekly blogs which
allowed me to become engaged in the chapters as well as learning how to embed
videos and hyperlinks. Blogs aren't something I was familiar with until I took
this online course. The reflective posts allowed me to read others responses
and look at different viewpoints. I enjoyed responding to others posts and
getting feedback from others as well. I really debated on whether I wanted to
take EME2040 online or on campus but I ‘m overall very happy that I chose to
take it online. It has allowed me to work at my own pace and explore on my own.
The videos were extremely helpful in giving guidance on how to do the bigger assignments.
For the future I would defiantly recommend this course to others who need this
course. Creating lesson plans, wikis, blog sites, power points, etc. are all
skills I can use in my future classroom. This class has really opened my mind in seeing how advanced the world we live in is actually becoming. Technology is rapidly being incorporated into the classrooms. According to our textbook <i>Transforming Learning With New Technologies</i> "Computers are no longer stand-alone devices that sit on desks or in labs. Lightweight, ultraportable laptops and powerful smartphones provide teachers and students with anywhere, anytime learning opportunities." I would say my overall favorite assignment
was creating the teacher webpage ePortfolio. Using the website <a href="http://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> made the
project simple but gave the overall finished product a professional look. I’m
really looking forward to have my own class one day, and this class has been a
great step in the right direction!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Barney is a classic Elementary show that was a favorite when I was a child. This is a video that shows a positive school/ classroom environment which is what I will strive for as a teacher!</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12542639722688513667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366199385577117161.post-8020136806508342402013-04-10T17:45:00.001-07:002013-04-10T17:45:25.490-07:00<br />
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How can teachers and students use digital portfolios as
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Digital portfolios are a collection of educational materials
stored in an electronic format such as a CD-ROM, website, or computer file.
Teachers can incorporate digital portfolios as a way to encourage new and
creative work in the classroom. Also working with digital portfolios can
increase a student’s technological skills and confidence. These portfolios can
open a giant door for learning possibilities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Chapter eleven starts off by letting new teachers aware of
the teacher assessment that they will be evaluated on. Teachers are continually
assessed and evaluated by faculty who coordinate teacher license programs and
by teachers and administrators in the schools. As well as teachers, students
are also assessed. Student assessment is the ongoing evaluation of students,
and is fundamental to the work of elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
Finally there is the student involvement in learning and assessment, this
assessment is how students will participate in the assessment process. All 3 of
these assessments are important to consider when entering the Education field.
A effective tool that teachers can use to assess their teaching is with a
device called a digital portfolio. Broadly speaking, a digital portfolio is a
goal driven, organized collection of artifacts that demonstrates a person’s
expansion of knowledge and skills over time. Digital portfolios are a great
tool to consider incorporating into the classroom. With these portfolios as a
teacher you can ask students to hyperlink documents, create navigation systems,
and embed images from multimedia. This is allowing students to become hands on
with their learning. There are disadvantages to digital portfolios though.
Digital portfolios require builders to know or learn to use computers, cameras,
scanners, photo, and illustrating software, and other tools. Teachers may have
to go out of their way to get professional supposed to build a portfolio
template. This all involves time and money. Although these may take time and
energy teachers have found this extremely helpful when monitoring their
teaching. It’s important for future educators to know that assembling a
portfolio is a structure for examining your teaching practices, identifying strengths
and weaknesses, and making plans to improve or change certain aspects in the
future. Changing ideas a little, democratic schools and classrooms is a term that
every educator should be aware of. Democratic schools and classrooms are places
where students and teachers together make substantive decisions about important
aspect of educational operations, from the academic curriculum to school
climate and rules. Input and involvement require teachers and students to
engage in open and frank discussions about how their classroom operates. This
is a way to really get your students involved in the classroom. While
self-proclaimed democratic schools represent only a time number of the schools
in the United States, many schools and teachers see themselves as teaching
democratically, and they find many ways to do this within the framework of a
more traditionally structured school organization. Before introducing any topic
to the class some type of assessment should be given to see where the students
are at. Preassessments, prior knowledge-based learning, and online surveys are
all great ways to determine where your students are at. The ultimate goal for
every teacher is to get these students to succeed. There are a number of ways
you can about this and one way teachers are doing this is by student
participation systems. These tools are handheld and wireless tools that offer
interactive learning options for teachers and students. This chapter finishes
off by saying it’s important to change the classroom experience and really get
students involved in the learning which will ultimately help them exceed, especially
on those high-stakes test.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>This is a great video that generates an overview on Electronic Portfolios.</i></div>
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The tech tool link I checked out was <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/">Survey Monkey</a>. This web
site is set up very professionally and is very well organized. At the top of the
web page it gives web-users the option to get instruction on how the page
works, examples of other surveys created, survey services, and plans and
pricing. I will be sure to keep this website in mind if I ever need to make
surveys! On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate this site a 10.</div>
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Maloy, R. (2011) <i>Transforming
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12542639722688513667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366199385577117161.post-83926548336223978152013-04-04T16:54:00.001-07:002013-04-04T16:54:50.430-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Chapter 10</span><br />
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Differentiated instruction (DT) is an instructional approach
that gives students “multiple options for talking in information and making
sense of ideas.” Differentiated instruction (DI) and universal design for
learning (UDL) are frameworks for teachers to use in adjusting their curriculum
and instruction away from a one-size-fits all model toward approaches that
address the needs of students within the same class.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chapter ten starts off talking about differentiated
instruction and universal design for learning. DI and UDL are often associated
with instructional changes designed to meet the needs of students with special
educational needs, gifted and talented learners, or English language learners. It’s
important as a future educator to become aware of all the different technology
resources that can be incorporated into the classroom. There are two main
routes for designing your classroom using technology: changing the classroom
learning environment or changing how the curriculum is delivered. All teachers
need to be prepared for students who will need assistive technologies.
Assistive technologies are tools that make academic material more accessible to
students by minimizing barriers to learning. An example of an assistive
technology is an electronic speller and dictionary. This device can find
correct spellings, listen to words spoken aloud, and check the accuracy of
their spelling without adult help. By plugging headphones into the machine,
students with hearing impairments can see and hear words they may not be able
to sound out phonetically. Another assistive technology is the calculator. A
calculator is a basic device that we all use as we continue our education
process. Speech recognition software translates a person’s spoken words into
written text on a computer screen. For students who have been unwilling or unsuccessful
writers, speech recognition software offers a new way to record their thoughts
that then becomes their writing. Text reading software is another example of an
assistive technology that lets computer users hear written text aloud by the
computer. The last assistive technology that book talks about is the interactive
electronic storybook. There is some debate about the storybook. Educators have
differing views about the usefulness of electronic storybooks for young
readers. Some see interactive storybooks as open ended classroom resources.
Other educators, concerned about students becoming overly dependent on
computers, they wonder if the interactive features of electronic storybooks may
distract students from the process of reading by decoding written words. There
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The tech tool link I checked out was “Jim Martindale’s calculator’s
on-line center.” Martindale’s calculator’s on-line center features links to
more than 22,000 calculation programs. The website is what I would consider to
be information overload. The background is a royal blue color with a page full
of hundreds of links to click on. The site is extremely overwhelming and in my
opinion not easy to navigate.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12542639722688513667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366199385577117161.post-45012831108610710422013-03-26T18:11:00.002-07:002013-03-26T18:11:50.257-07:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Chapter Nine</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers can use power point to create slideshows of
academic material and include text, pictures, charts, graphs, audio, video and
animations. It is known that successful teaching involves interactive presentation
that engages students. Although power point is one the most popular
presentation software programs there others known as Keynote, and Corel
presentations. The more time a teacher puts into creating the power point the
more opportunity it gives the teacher to make the power point visually engaging
and appealing. Just as important as the visual aspect the academic content is
just as important. If a teacher is willing to create a successful power point
presentation it can only maximize teaching and learning potential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chapter nine starts off by focusing on multimedia
technologies in classrooms. There are two important techniques in teaching, one
being single-mode learning and the other being multimodal learning. Single-mode
learning is simply “when a teacher talks”. Multimodal learning is when a
teacher combines spoken words with visuals or written text with audio or
utilize simulations models. Multimodal learning through media has found that
students who get this method of teaching outperform students who learn using traditional
approaches with single modes. Multimedia technologies open a giant door of
opportunities for students to succeed. Power point is a great tool to use to
engage and inspire students. Power point is a multimedia presentation that is
featured on many of today’s computers. Power point is a way for teachers to
create a lesson using technology. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
power point is used well, it communicates information memorably to students. It’s
important as an educator to keep two key questions in mind when creating a
power point. “Who is my audience?” “What do I want my audience to leave knowing
or remembering?” There are many ways to enhance a power point presentation but
the key to success is by incorporating these attributes: visual text, visual
analysis, create questions, use attention getters, and develop your own
learning games. As well as incorporating power point, including videos are just
as important. Incorporating video into the classroom can be done in any grade
level. There are an abundance number of educational videos that can be found
just within the school itself. Videos are easy to get ahold of and students
become interested in these. Student’s response to video images is different
from their response to printed text or teacher talk. Some teachers simply just
turn the TV on and have their students watch whatever has been assigned, but
there is a way for the teacher to become active and engaged in the student
learning. While showing a movie a teacher can be active with the students by:
using the pause and rewind buttons often, asking students to write responses,
minimizing the time video is shown in the classroom, and turning off the sound
or the picture. Another powerful multimedia technology that be incorporated
into the classroom is digital cameras. Digital cameras are small but powerful
tools capable of taking still photographs and video images that can be
downloaded to a computer for printing, editing, and viewing. There are four
important reasons for a teacher photographer: enhances student’s experiences,
document learning, become active with learning and students become creative.
Teachers and students can inexpensively photograph virtually any instructional
activity from every subject area. In today’s generation there are so many ways
to effectively incorporate technology. Chapter 9 finishes off by talking about
podcasts and vodcasts. Podcast is an audio recording distributed online and
accessed on computers or portable media plays. Educational podcasts are everywhere
in the web. Major news organizations including PBS and the New York Times
provide podcasts of key stories and current events. Vodcast on the other hand
is a just an extension of podcasting. Teachers in the school setting can
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<em>In todays generation we are known as "Digital Natives". This is a great video that shows how educators can incorporate podcasts into the classroom.</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tech tool link I checked out was <a href="http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Digital Story Telling</span></a>.
The website is very well organized with different featured tabs making the navigation
process easy. As you scroll toward the bottom of the page the site highlights
on different digital stories that people have created. The goal of this site is
to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in
how digital storytelling works. I would rate this webpage an overall 10. The
site is very detailed when describing how to create your own storyboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers can create a blog account that would allow students
to become actively engaged online. Teachers can pose questions and ask students
to respond. This allows for online discussions to take place. Blogs are a great
way for English teachers to promote literacy learning through writing and the
analysis of language. Blogs are also a great way to make parents feel involved
and connected. These blogs are able to update parents and share what is going
on in the classroom. As well as staying connected with the parents it also
allows teachers to communicate with other teachers. This way teachers are able
to support one another and ask question. Blogs are great and should be
incorporated into the classrooms to improve teaching/ learning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chapter eight starts off by focusing on how teachers can
communicate electronically. As a teacher the major components of communication
that are used are: classroom websites, email, instant messaging, discussion
boards, blogs, and wikis. They each have their own purpose, but are all as
equally important. There are two different types of communications, Synchronous
and Asynchronous. Synchronous communications occur in real times, as with cell
phone conversations or instant message exchanges. Asynchronous communications
involve a time delay, i.e. email messages, threaded discussions, or blogs. Incorporating
electronic communications in the classroom is very important for success. This
allows for teaching interactively, sharing info, building learning communities,
publishing student work, and energizing student writing. Email may be the most
useful communication tool for teachers, because it has its own built-in recordkeeping
system. Everyone involved in the emailing is accountable for anything he/she
says. Email is consider to be more proper in the school setting compared to
instant messaging which provides immediate feedback. With Email you are able to
spell check and create a thoughtful reply as instant messaging most people tend
to use “textspeak”. Textspeak is abbreviated collection of symbols and letters
that are used for quick communication. Blogging is an immensely popular online
activity. Reading a blog can be best described as reading someone’s journal/
diary. Blogs are great to incorporate into the classroom because, it enhances
student learning, promotes student/family communications and professional
networking. It is important to keep in mind the four key designs when creating
a teacher blog. The key designs are: content posting, reader response,
audience, and authorship. Wikis have also become a popular online learning
tool. In schools, wikis allow students to use technology in meaningful ways,
collaborate with peers, synthesis and explain content, publish their writing,
and receive feedback about their learning both inside and outside the
classroom. Wikis are great because they allow users to edit the same webpage.
This method of blogging has greatly grown over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tech tool link I checked out was <a href="http://www.godaddy.com/">"Go Daddy"</a>. Go daddy is
an online site that allows users to create their own websites and host their
own accounts. This site is used mainly for business purposes and costs money
depending on the package that’s purchased. There are positive feedback comments
on the home page from active users of the site. The site seems very user
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Intelligent tutoring systems are powerful new software
programs that promote inquiry learning by students through computer responses
to student actions. This tool can be used successfully when a teacher notices a
student struggling in a certain area. This source of technology is basically
replacing the human tutor, a computer-based tutor can provide children with the
structured practice they need to become better academic learners and test
takers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chapter seven starts off by giving us an understanding of
computers and software. It’s important to know that computers consist of hardware’s
and software’s. Hardware is the basic machinery and circuitry of a computer and
the software is what tells a computer’s hardware to perform specific functions.
Almost all computers now come with the Standard Software Applications. These
applications are what make all of our lives easier. Some examples of these
software applications are: word processing, electronic databases, spreadsheets,
web-browsing software, communications software, presentation software, and
specialization software. Each of these software programs has their own
individual tasks that benefit the user. It can be a challenge choosing
educational software to install on classroom computers. Teachers need to make
sure that the child is controlling the activities and not the other way around.
Also teachers need to be aware that the software does <u>not </u>promote
competition, stereotyping or violence. Finally, teachers want the game to favor
some kind of long-term thinking over quick reactions. These are all very
important factors when choosing in class software programs. Bloom’s taxonomy is
another way to evaluate educational software. Blooms taxonomy assesses the
extent to which a particular program encourages higher order thinking by
students. The original list of Blooms taxonomy consisted of: knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It had now
been revised to: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating,
and creating. If teachers are still having a hard time choosing software there
are numerous educational organizations that have online resources that assist
teachers in selecting software. Examples for a couple of them are: Educational
software preview guide, Entertainment software rating board, EvaluTech, and
stopbadware.org.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Students are now turning towards expressing and organizing
themselves through using visual thinking and concept mapping software. There
are students who do not find brainstorming on paper an inspiring way to evoke
ideas or solve problems. Students sometimes find their handwriting too messy,
or either too confining or time consuming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Programs such as inspiration eliminate these problems for students.
Chapter seven finishes off focusing on intelligent tutoring systems.
Intelligent tutoring systems are powerful new software programs that promote
inquiry learning by students through computer responses to student actions.
Because the system is computerized, information can be gathered and presented
almost instantaneously so adults and students can see how learning is
progressing at any time. These systems are starting to positively impact
students, therefore we might see more of these incorporated in the classrooms
in the near future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-The tech tool link I checked out was <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jonny303/2112151">"Scratch"</a>. Scratch is
on online web page for elementary school students to create their own online
games. I could see this program being incorporated into student-center
philosophy classrooms. Although this web-page isn’t necessarily educational, it
could be something offered to students during a free time. On the webpage, kids
are able to download the program to create the games or they are able to select
already programed games. The site is very easy to navigate through and is well
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-Webquests are online educational experiences where students
go to one or more websites to obtain academic information or engage in other
inquiry-based learning activities. Virtual field trips are online learning
adventures where students are able to visit far-away places using their
classroom computers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chapter six starts out by focusing on managing information
electronically. Digital content is becoming widely used by teachers. Digital
content is an easily accessible source of academic information and new
knowledge. Teachers can use this web-based information to teach the school curriculum.
As well as teaching school curriculum, the internet is useful for meeting
local, state, and national curriculum frameworks. Since using the internet has
become such an important tool for teachers, tasks mangers have created
bookmarks to make locating and organizing web information easier. Bookmarks
remember the website addresses that are frequently visited. In addition to book
marking there is social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is an information
management process where groups of interested people share their web links electronically
in an open public web space. The difference between the two is that one is a
private library of resources seen by one person as the other one is a public
list that can be viewed by many readers. Information alerts and RSS feeds also
can greatly impact an active online teacher. Information alerts can assist busy
teachers with a system of announcements about new information online. Google is
one provider to these alerts. Google can generate five types of alerts: news,
web, blog, group, and comprehensive. This can be a real time saver for
teachers! RSS feeds are another way for teachers to access the information they
need for curriculum and instruction. The New York Times, Yahoo! News:
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As teachers are becoming more efficient online, webquests
and virtual field trips are becoming more frequently incorporated into the
classrooms. As a teacher it is important to involve the students in the
classroom and make them become interested in the topics. Webquests are online
educational experiences where students go to one or more websites to obtain
academic information or engage in other inquiry-based learning activities.
Virtual field trips on the other hand take students to places all over the
world without ever leaving their school’s classroom or computer lab. Although
virtual field trips are still relatively new, they are looking promising in
helping raise students test scores. There was a small student study done that
involved 400 students in two middle schools, and studies show that the middle
school students had higher reading comprehension scores after participating in
online field trips. Interactive videoconferencing is very similar to virtual
field trips. Videoconferencing is a distance learning technology that offers
real-time access to people and places that students are unable to visit. I have
personally seen video conferences used in my former high school. Chapter six
finishes off by talking about different kinds of educational websites. There
are thousands of these different types of educational websites but they all
have the common ground of being interactive and engaging to students. A few
examples the book gives are: Lesson plan websites, student-to-expert communication
websites, real-time and recorded data websites, archival and primary source
websites, and skills/practice websites.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tech tool link I checked out was “<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>”. Goodreads is a very professional and organized webpage. After creating a quick account
you are able to organize all your favorite books online. This webpage is
virtually keeping you organized, which is very important for all future educators.
The great thing about this website is that you can log into any computer and
your library can be accessed. I personally love to read, and this would be a
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Search engines retrieve information from the internet using
keywords. They are also able to go through millions of web pages to locate
topic-related websites at a high speed. Teachers and students benefit from
search tools that focus more directly on academic topics, educational
standards, and learning material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chapter five focuses on how teachers and students can use
and analyze the powerful took known as the internet. It is extremely important
that everyone, especially future educators know how to access and assess
information. The capacity to access and assess information online is known as
information literacy. The standards of what students need to know have changed
greatly through out the years. The national council of teachers of English (NCTE) has issued its own definition
of the skills students will need in the future, called 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>- century
literacies. Students will need to learn a handful of new technology-based
literacies. Search engines will be a tool that every student will need to know
how to use proficiently. A search engine is a software program that uses
networks of computers to access information about a topic from its databases.
Search engines are a great tool for school work espically when it comes to
research. When I was in middle and highschool my peers and I would hand write
out our notes but today they are now incorporating electronic note taking. This
tool uses computer technologies to organize and expedite note taking. While taking
notes online it is extremely important to determine the accuracy of the
information you are reviewing. Quantity does not always mean quality, so often
internet searcher must shift through pages of wrong information to find the
valid data. As a future educator it will be my job to help my students
understand the different types of academic content resources that they will
find online. It will be my job to teach them about the information contained in
web addresses and about the concept of cognitive load. With such easy access to
the internet now, students tend to find plagiarism easier. The direct copying
and misrepresenting of someone else’s work is considered plagiarism. The three
main factors that contribute to plagiarism today are; the web, high-stakes
testing, and misassumptions by students. Some schools check plagrism by using
services such as <a href="http://turnitin.com/">http://turnitin.com/</a> ,<a href="http://www.ithenticate.com/">http://www.ithenticate.com/</a>, <a href="http://plagiarismchecker.servicesreview.net/canexus-com-review/">canexus.com</a>.Teachers
should make students aware of plagrism and how it can be avoided.</span></div>
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<em> "Teachers will not be replaced by technology, but teachers who don't use technology will be replaced by those who do."</em><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Sheryl Nussbaum- Beach</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tech-tool link I checked out from chapter five was Flickr.
Flickr allows for people to upload, discover, and share photos. This could be a
great resource that would add to visual learning resources to a classroom
curriculum. After looking through the webpage I found it to be very similar to
Instagram and a little bit like Pinterest. On Flickr you are able to create discussion
boards which would be useful for communicating with colleague and picture
sharing. Flickr can serve many different purposes such as: making cards, making
photo books, slideshows, calendars, and postage stamps. The web-page is very easy
to navigate. I would consider using this site in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the idea that access to the latest computer technology varies greatly within
society with low-income and non-white Americans less likely to be able to
afford and use the newest tools. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chapter four starts off by talking about the integration of
technology in the classroom. There are so many ways to make technologies an
internal part of the classroom. A few examples of this would be: <em>creating power
points, viewing video recordings, posting and accessing course assignments
online, researching political parties</em>, and so much more! The way teachers use
technology can be subdivided into three primary ways, those being:
<em>inside-the-classroom teaching tools, outside-the-classroom professional
resources, and inside-and outside- the classroom learning resources for
students</em>. Chapter four subdivides five important technology bases that we are
now seeing in schools. There now are technology-based libraries, technology-
based textbooks, technology based learning environments, technology based teaching
tools, and technology based offices. Technology is highly becoming integrated
in our schools and classrooms. Future educators need to know that integrating
technology into teaching takes patience, perseverance, and willingness to
involve students in learning about technology. The book gives examples of a
digital pen and a digital notepad. In theory, digital pens and digital notepads
can change how teachers manage the notes and writing applications that occupy a
major portion of their work time. Incorporating these into all classrooms in
the future will be a great advancement then what our society used learning in
classrooms. Technology is evolving fast therefore, future educators need to be
ready for change and adaption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tech tool link I checked out was the <a href="http://www.iste.org/standards">(NETS)</a> website. NETS
stands for National Educational Technology Standards for students. (NETS) has
been created to set standards for excellence and best practices in learning,
teaching, and leading with technology in education. On the site you are able to
click on one of the “Net” families. For example you are able to choose among: “Nets
for students”, “Nets for teachers”, “Nets for administrators”, “Nets for
coaches”, and “Nets for computer science educators.” These links then will send
you to a website where you can purchase books that go along with the net family
that you have chosen. There are several different tabs that enable users to do
different things. There are rubric forms to use that asses how effectively you’re
integrating technology in the classrooms as well as video case studies that
show how teachers integrated technology in the classroom. I found this site to
be a bit overwhelming with information and with the several different tabs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lesson development using technology involves how teachers use electronic resources to facilitate these processes.</div>
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Chapter three starts off on focusing on the three important
lesson developments. It is essential that the teacher knows what to teach.
Every time they teach, teachers make choices about the facts, concepts, ideas,
skills and understandings they intend to share with the students. After the
teacher decides on what to teach, he or she will decide the teaching goals,
methods, and procedures they will use in their classes. Teachers combine goals,
methods, and procedures into formats for daily learning. Finally teachers need
to know what students have learned. Learning assessments should occur before,
during, and after teaching lessons. All of these developments are extremely
important. Meeting educational standards is just as important in the
educational field. Every teacher must make decisions about what to explore in
detail, what to teach more broadly, and what to mention in passing. Curriculum
frameworks and learning standards guide your choices of “what to teach” to make
sure you are meeting those educational standards. On the other hand test
assessments help you to understand how to asset and evaluate all learners.
There are two basic assessments. The Norm-reference test and the Criterion-Reference test. Chapter three finishes off by talking about
incorporating technology in performance assessment. There is a chart presented
in the book that includes discussion questions, performance tasks, and a
technology project. The technology projects really would have students engaged
with the program PowerPoint which is an important tool to be able to use
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The tech tool link that I checked out was “RubiStar”. This Website allows for teachers to create their own rubrics. The Rubistar system provides a set of templates to choose from. The website is quick and simple. You must log onto <a href="http://4teachers.org/">http://4teachers.org/</a> and click on Rubistar on the right hand side. Once you have done that you scroll down to the bottom of the page to choose your topic template. There are templates for virtually anything, such as: Writing, Math, Multimedia, Science, Music, and much more. I would defiantly keep this site in mind when it comes to creating my own rubrics!</div>
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<i>This is a excellent video that creates a twenty first century learning environment that combines technology and online going developments to help gain student achievements in the classrooms. This video is all about teaching and using these technology's proficiently. This video can be found directly on the <a href="http://4teachers.org/">http://4teachers.org/</a> website.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">CHAPTER TWO</span></div>
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visually?" -Technology provides several different programs such as: Software
programs, internet sites, videos, graphing calculators, and devices like
telescopes and microscopes. All of these different programs provide information
dynamically. Technology now-a-days can do things that in the past would not
have been capable of. Technology now can reveal the ocean depths, the immenseness
of the solar system, and the structural systems of the human body. We see
things now that we would not have seen without the technology. Technologies
teacher can use online simulations and experiments, 3D virtual reality
presentations and tours, real-time data displays and analysis, online video
clips, and so much more to promote learning threw visual experiments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Summary: </em></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Chapter two of <em>“Transforming learning with new technologies”</em> first
starts on highlighting the three learning theories. Educators tend to follow
one of the three learning theories. The learning theories are: Behaviorism,
Cognitive Science, and Constructivism. Behaviorism is a set of changes in human
behavior created as a function of events in the environment. Therefore learning
is a process of memorizing, demonstrating, and imitating. Cognitive Science on
the other hand suggests that learning is also influenced by nonobservable and
internal constructs, such as memory motivation, perception, attention and
metacognitive skills. Finally constructivism claims that every person interprets
and constructs the world in their own way. Therefore learning is a process of
manipulating and interpreting the surrounding world in a unique way for each
individual. Technology is now becoming an important asset to have in the
classroom. Technology lets teachers conduct drill- and- practice learning of
concepts through computer-based learning games, reviewing key material, and
providing rich resources. Technology can expand the curriculum to include the
world beyond the classroom; which is extremely important in my eyes! Also
technology creates multiple opportunities for engagement and collaboration.
Student- center classrooms highly revolve around student collaboration
therefore incorporating technology into my classroom would help me tremendously.
Technology promotes: student-conducted online polls and surveys, collaborative
digital storytelling, digital games for learning translation software, and
online posters and website publishing. My students will be active learners
which the book states as "discovery learning, "learning by
doing", "inquiry-based learning", or "hands on
learning". This is ultimately what learning is all about; learning through
action.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The video presentation I found below does a great job of enhances the differences between a teacher-centered classroom and a student-centered classroom. The presentation also talks about how technology has expanded our resources. </span></span></span></div>
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the Wayange Outpost. This Website is designed to help prepare middle and high
school students for standardized math tests such as the SAT, MCAS, and CASTAR.
The website is very well organized and is simple to use, after a simple signing
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