Sunday, February 19, 2012

Blog Post #4

 two children podcasting a boy an a girl with a laptop computer
Podcasting is a great way of learning, because you can record what a teacher is lecturing on and play it back over and over again. Podcasting helps students when they are out of school for long periods of time due to illness or any kind of problem. Teachers can talk to there students about assignments or have debates through podcasting as well. Podcasting is a grat way for students and teachers to build a very strong learning environment. Through such technology parents can also follow up on there children at anytime to see how they are doing in there studies.

In the benefits of podcasting in the classroom
I think it is a great thing to have going on in a classroom. There are alot of great benefits from podcasting in my eyes. By me being a parent and a education major i can benefit from podcasting in lots of positive ways.

1st graders Create Their Own-Read-Along Audio book
Podcasting helps with a lot of problems that come about in classrooms. This keeps a healthy relationship between teachers, students, and parents. The students also enjoy following along listing to the voice of there priors reading to them verses the teachers voice.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Technology in Special Education. Technology is a very important aspect in today's classrooms. Tools such as laptops and ipads make the learning experience fun and more appealing to the students in special education. Computers help the students communicate better to our students and the teacher in the classroom.

Getting students attentions is without effort when it comes to technology rater than the paper and pencil idea. The computer helps the students in so many ways till I don't see how schools can have a good experience without technology. Computers are a must for the teachers and the students to build a good and healthy relationship.

How the ipad works with Academics for Autism. The ipad helps kids with Autism to count and learn words by customizing the colors and shapes to get and keep there attention. By using the App letter quiz that would also put the students in the mind of a video game.The bright lights and colors are a great way to get the child to pay attention to what they are trying to learn. I really agree with using the ipad for teaching special kids and disabled kids to learn.

Watching he Social Media Count changing so rapidly is very scary. The changes are happening so fast till it makes me wonder, what will computers be able to do in the next year or maybe even next mouth By watching the social Media count makes me think about how importantEDM310 is to a person like me trying to earn a professional carer as a teacher in today's world.

Knowing how to use a computer is for sure becoming mandatory in the near future. Everything we do is run by computers, all the way down to ordering form fast food restaurants. The entire world is based on using computer, therefore being a teacher will require some very intense training at the hands of a computer.

A vision of students Today. Teachers at Universities need to realize that students don't even pick up there textbook let alone read it. Everything a student needs to know is on the internet.Students be on there computers for hours a day. In order for teachers to get there point across to students they will have to learn to get more involved with the digital world before they get stuck in the past.

Presidents of all the Universities should work on making the classrooms as virtual as possible. Computers are the new wave of the future and the future is now.I feel if we leave the pencil and paper times grades would go up and the kids would want to come to class more.
elementary school student using an ipad

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Friday, February 10, 2012

C4T Summary Post #1

a rock held between the fingers of somone's hands reading believe with the beach in the background


Royan Lee is the teacher I've been commenting on. In the first post he talked about Self Belief. He also talked about how when he gives his students feedback he tries his best to stress the postive in their work. I commented by saying I also try to find the postive in each person I come in contact with.

In Royan Lee's second post I found it very interesting. It was about the inevitable weigth on your shoulders that seems insufferable. He says your only exit is to accept what is chasing your soul and learn to walk side by side with your nightmare, changing it to an everlasting dream. I'm dealing with a weight of the world as we speak. Everytime I try to deal with the problem, it seems to worsen. I think that in due time I will be able to walk side by side with this issue.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Blog Post #2

teacher helping children inside a classroom using computers

Am I ready to become an educator? Being a teacher in todays world and in the near future will require a lot of hand on work with computers. Most of the children in the world already spend hours texting and on their computers, hours out of the day. It is a must to own a computer in todays society.
You could really get left in the past without a computer. As I look at the stats in this clip I realize that everyone owns a computer if not several. This lets me know just how far technology has come in such a short period.The United States should be superior to other countries yet we come in almost last.
I found Mr. Winkles very amusing as well as informative. I really dont understand why he slept so long. He missed a great deal i advancement of technology. In the hospital he was very confused on the usefulness of the respirator. Only if he really knew how many life it has saved.
Then he went to the school, he felt comfortable. He was in a zone where he could relate. This shows how far behind the school system is in todays world. There was only one computer in the whole class room, and there wasn't a person using it. School systems are stuck in the stone age with pen and paper.
Ken Robinson says that schools kill creativity. The way he explains it makes good sense. how can we educate our kid for a world that we really don't understand. The world is changing to fast to know what to teach our kids.
We as future educators have to do better than what we are currently teaching our kids. The kids in schools today have to learn that having a degrees dosen't gaurantee a job anymore. We must addequate knowledge.
A vision for 21 century learning is all about computers. Computers have made their mark on our every day lives. We can only imagine our live with out computers. Brining the virtual world into our kids lives make for a graet learning experience.
Sitting in todays classrooms listening to lectures tend to get boring really fast. Computers open up more learning experiences. Computers also grasp the attention of students better.
Paper and pencilis out of date. As we know computer are the key to the future. Students are learning how to blog. They are making this a dailycommunication habit. Bloggin is the way in the classrooms for teacher to spend one on one time.
The teachers are along with students. Sometime the student are showing the teachers. computers can be a learning experience for all. This keeps students interested an makes them want to come to class.