Class Refection

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Reflection

The affordance of Web 2.0 tools has revolutionized the education world.  Web 2.0 tool sites allows users to interact with other users or change website content.  Today, teachers are using Web 2.0 tools to introduce lessons in their classroom.  Students are collaborating with other students around the world, creating online content and displaying their work to a global world.  Web 2.0 tools facilitates collaboration, networking, critical thinking, innovation, creativity, global understanding and multicultural learning.  Various tools for collaborative writing and editing, private communication, online conferencing, file sharing, and desktop sharing.  This type of sharing enable teachers to effectively collaborate with the students beyond school hours, making optimum use of the technology available.  As educators, the use of Web 2.0 tools is transforming our work, and more specifically the way we support students in the classroom.

Week 10

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Week 9

Article Reflection:
After I read the article it sparked some thoughts in my head about blogs in the classroom.  I think that using blogs in the classroom is tricky.  The reason I think its tricky is because some students will complete the assignments with little to no high level thinking.  However, some student’s will demonstrate some critical thinking and include high-level intellectual discussions in blog.  When I think about today’s students, my final thought is students will usually prefer technology based assignments.  I think students will spend more time on their assignments when they are posted on a platform such as a blog.  Instructors might use blogs as an interactive way of discussing class materials outside of the classroom. Students may choose the topics to blog by themselves, increasing their levels of interest.


Draft for Keystone:
Summary
A unit plan on animals, it is a topic that sparks children’s interest and makes them want to learn more.  This unit will help children learn more about animals and how animal life relates to humans.  In addition, this unit is being taught in many schools today and I felt that it was important for future teachers to understand that there are many subjects that could be taught using a unit on animals.  In this animal unit students will cover the following subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Physical Education and Technology. The ideas using an animal unit are endless.

Grade: Kindergarten

Standards:

• Social Studies

Learning Standard 3: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

• English language arts

Learning Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.
As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

• Science

Learning Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Students will need to have access to computer lab and be able to navigate the internet.  The integration of technology will help students take away with them the following "big ideas":
Animals come in a great diversity of shapes and sizes.
Animals need a place to grow and live, these places must provide specific things such as shelter, air, water, and food.
Animals interact with and depend on their physical environment.

Evaluation:
After studying and viewing animals students will draw animal’s habitat, label physical structures, and write/tell how these structures help it to survive.  Students will also be presented with different animals to sort based on their attributes.