For this blog post we were assigned to watch First Graders in Ms. Cassidy's Class and Ms. Cassidy's Skype. Her techniques for teaching with technology in the classroom are very useful to everyone. I believe her use of blogs and a classroom webpage was fantastic even for such young children because kids love to play and love to explore on computers. So for her students to be able to use computers and internet probably helped them to be much more interested in the material and much more enthused about schooling in general. I think that for older students in a high school setting, playing on computers is more of a distraction than an actual fun learning experience because most of the students in schools now a days probably know more than the teacher does anyways. However, i would be very interested in using blogs and classroom websites as a technique for my classroom so that i can put up extra resources, homework assignments, and even quizzes for students to take at home. I would also use it for a place that students who were absent could go and see what we did in class that day. She puts on her blogs videos for her students to go and watch about ABC's and reading practice and these are all extra resources that are helping her students get a step ahead on other students in other classes. For my classroom i would use it to put up instructional videos on how to do projects, how to complete certain homework examples, and upcoming events. Wikis also would be a good resource to use in the classroom as she did for any age student. This would be useful in helping students to do research for projects or research papers. And skype to me would be very useful because you could have a guest speaker without ever having to leave the classroom or having that person travel all the way to where you are.
Guess what man, everyone I am assigned to never has a post lol. I think that litle kids probably have more interest on a cpu then anyone else because they are at the age where they are still trying and wanting to learn as much as possible as fast as possible so I agree with you that it is great that she is teaching them this at such a young age. Also, we had no speed lastnight at the flag game so I would like you to not be sick anymore, and when are we going to start working on our project? Sam said he hasn't done a single thing yet. I guess we will just have to wait on that girl to tell us when to meet lol.
ReplyDeleteCody,
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a very interesting point ... I think that for older students in a high school setting, playing on computers is more of a distraction than an actual fun learning experience because most of the students in schools now a days probably know more than the teacher does anyways. I think that technology can be a great asset to high school students if we have some guards on how they use it pertaining to education. I wanted to know your thoughts on what we could do to make it more effective for high school students. Try and give some examples of what someone could do.
i hate that i missed it but ill surely be there this sunday tho! and yea the project 15 is due 11/21 so we definitely need to start it this coming week sometime.
ReplyDeleteCody,
ReplyDeleteYou said that since children love to play and explore on the computerthat probably helped them to be more interested in the material. I agree with you and think it is great that she knows how to keep her students entertained while still learning. I also agree that with older students using the internet can be a problem. I know there are ways for teachers to block what students can see on the web.