Do you iGoogle?
I enjoyed the presentation over iGoogle and I have already set my homepage and added new gadgets to my page including the ToDo list. I love it! After going over all of the unique applications provided by Google, I still decided to complete this project using a Wiki. Instead of creating a Wiki through Google, I ended up creating a project in the Classroom Wiki I already completed previous in this course. I still feel that Google has so many great gadgets to offer a classroom and I hope to utilize them as I can in my lessons.
Lesson Plan:
For the technology lesson plan in this weeks assignment, I decided to create a lesson based on a unit that I previously covered this year over the structural layers of Earth. The video below is a brief instructional piece shown to the students to get them started with incorporating technology into this lesson. I developed the Jing presentation to guide the students into the class Wiki and to the project Wiki pages. The students will utilize the Wiki to develop their group ideas and create a model of the structural layers of Earth. I chose to develop the assignment using the Wiki tool, mainly for the reasons of keeping it simple. Teaching sixth graders can be challenging enough, so this is ideal. I hope you enjoy.
Video Response:
I am not sure how everyone else felt after watching the two informative videos from our class blog, but I sort of felt like I was being slapped in the face so to speak. As a teacher, in the public education system, I am seriously doing my students an injustice when it comes to preparing them for higher education and future careers in regards to technology. So what can I do to change? I feel that if I keep doing my best to incorporate technology into my lessons the students will remain engaged and eventually relate the curriculum into their daily routines. As teachers, it is necessary to remain up to speed with technology integration in order to prepare our K-12 students of tomorrow. In science, I am capable of leaving the learning up to the students and technology is the most effective way to 'put the lesson in the student's hands'. The students of today learn by doing or having hands on experience. I can only hope to allow this hands on experience to flow throughout my classroom daily in hopes of meeting the vision of our future learners.
Lesson Plan:
For the technology lesson plan in this weeks assignment, I decided to create a lesson based on a unit that I previously covered this year over the structural layers of Earth. The video below is a brief instructional piece shown to the students to get them started with incorporating technology into this lesson. I developed the Jing presentation to guide the students into the class Wiki and to the project Wiki pages. The students will utilize the Wiki to develop their group ideas and create a model of the structural layers of Earth. I chose to develop the assignment using the Wiki tool, mainly for the reasons of keeping it simple. Teaching sixth graders can be challenging enough, so this is ideal. I hope you enjoy.
Video Response:
I am not sure how everyone else felt after watching the two informative videos from our class blog, but I sort of felt like I was being slapped in the face so to speak. As a teacher, in the public education system, I am seriously doing my students an injustice when it comes to preparing them for higher education and future careers in regards to technology. So what can I do to change? I feel that if I keep doing my best to incorporate technology into my lessons the students will remain engaged and eventually relate the curriculum into their daily routines. As teachers, it is necessary to remain up to speed with technology integration in order to prepare our K-12 students of tomorrow. In science, I am capable of leaving the learning up to the students and technology is the most effective way to 'put the lesson in the student's hands'. The students of today learn by doing or having hands on experience. I can only hope to allow this hands on experience to flow throughout my classroom daily in hopes of meeting the vision of our future learners.
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