Blog post #5

The iSchool Initiative

Travis Allen made some positive points in this video iSchool initiative about using iSchool instead of the traditional ways of learning, which is teachers lecturing, writing notes with paper and pencil, in a classroom. He states that using the iSchool would help save money for schools and help our environment to where we would not have to cut down trees to make paper.

My reaction to this video was both positive and negative. I think the iSchool would be good to use in classrooms because everything is being used from technology now. Many students are already using their phones to communicate with their teachers like sending emails. The only thing about the iSchool is how is it going to help the special need students? Will there be a special device make to help the blind students? Are the deaf students able to operate this device? This new technology does take away the one on one time that the students could have with a teacher for things they don't understand. But I think this would be good for using in classrooms to help students learn and be more prepared.
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
From watching this video I was very shocked and amazed at how good these people sounded. It's amazing how all this was done over the internet and everyone was in the right key and they haven't even practiced in person together. I would love to try this one day. I have sung in the choir at my church and I know that it can be difficult to get everyone on one pitch and sing the correct note. This video really surprised me!

Virtual Choir

Teaching 21st Century StudentsRobert thinks that teaching is by thinking, using facts, content, and resource to find out information and how you should think and apply it. Some people rely on what other people say without getting the true facts. A lot of people also rely on the internet for information. My position is that the skills we learn in classrooms are fading away because everyone is relying on the internet and he is right about that. It will affect us as educator because everything is being done using technology and using the internet. One point that he made was about entertainment and engaging. Students would learn more if they would go out into the world and be engaged in activities that will help them learn like go and interact with other people and discover the way that other people think and apply information.
Teaching 21st Century Students

Why I Flipped the Classroom

I think that flipping the classroom is a good idea because it allows teachers to help all students and get them on the same level and caught up. This will help with not leaving a child behind and feeling lost and confused. Flipping the classroom gives the teacher an idea on who needs a certain amount of help. Having the higher level students working with the lower level students can make comparison on what exactly the teacher needs to do to help students achieve and succeed. Like said in the video 90 percent of the class time will be with going around to each group and helping them with assignments and the other 10 percent will be time for them to ask questions on things they don't understand.
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Blog Post #4

Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom

I learned that the benefits of podcasting in the classroom is an effective way of interacting with students outside the traditional classroom. Students born after 1980, have never experienced life in a world without technology. Technology has taken up a great amount of their free time. The videos listed some facts about technology and how children spent sending two hundred and fifty thousand IM's, spent ten thousand hours playing video games, ten thousand hours on the phone, and more then twenty thousand hours watching TV. I also learned that podcasting allows differentiation in the classrooms and allows students to play things back. It allows creativity and innervation According the Kourtney Bostain, podcasting allows students to demonstrate high orders of thinking skills. Teachers are able to upload podcast to a blog. There was one teacher who used podcast to help with reading a play and had different teachers playing different parts to keep getting the students' attention. Parents can also hear and see what is going on in their child's classrooms.
Podcasting in the Classroom

Langwitches- Podcasting with First Grade
 In this article you learn how the students interact with one another and how technology really makes a big difference in learning. Mrs. Tolisano and her 1st grade class made a podcast about a book called "Vacation under the Volcano". Their idea was to pretend that they were interviewing the two main characters form the book about their adventure to Pompeii. The students took turns speaking in the podcast. The boys played Jack and the girls played Annie. They recorded things together as a class like gasping or saying "No children allowed", and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. After each reading Ms. Tolisano typed up questions and answers for the students. The students were very cooperative and attentive to what was going on with the recording. Students ask to record their part a second time if they were not satisfied with their first recording. Doing this assignment brought shy and quiet students out of their shells. I learned that podcasting teaches skills like listening, speaking, presenting, voice acting, oral fluency, media, and technology. The class couldn't wait to hear their recording the next day.


Langwitches Listening- Comprehension- Podcasting
In the video below I learn that language is very important and in order to learn new vocabulary you have to hear the word over and over to understand the context of the word. When you are learning a new language, you have to attach feeling to the word. Also when people are learning a new language they have to practice using the words to help them get comfortable with it and help them with pronouncing them. Also help feeling and hearing the word coming out their mouth. When recording and editing a podcast, its gives the students an opportunity to see their voices, read the sounds and manipulate the sequence of sentences. I think this is a very helpful tool in learning a different language. If it is really helping young children learn how to speak a different language, why not make it something to use in all grade levels? I would really enjoy using a podcast to help me learn words from a different language. It's amazing how each student recorded a sentence and how they all had to put it in order. This was a great way for helping students learn about writing a script, listening, comprehension, collaboration, speaking skills, and fluency in the target language.
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Blog 3

Peer Editing

According to the three videos on peer editing, I learned that peer means someone in your own age group and editing means making suggestions, commenting, complimenting and changes to writing. There are three important steps for peer editing, compliments, suggestions, and corrections. When commenting on someone's writing you have to stay positive, for compliments, tell the writer what you like about their material. For example, I really like your topic or I think you used a lot of good details.
You should always stay positive when making suggestions also. Make suggestions about word choice, sentences, grammar and spelling mistakes.

According to the TOP 10 Mistakes link, if you see incorrect spelling, tell the writer where and what was spelled wrong and the correct way to spell it. In addition, try and stay on topic when peer reviewing someone's paper. The writer should also not take the feedback personally.







Peer Editing
Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial
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Technology in Special Education
This video Technology in Special Education shows how important technology is in normal classrooms and special needs classrooms. It shows how computers are an asset to the special needs students. According to this video, special need students are capable with certain technologies to help them.
They should also receive the same amount of education as any other student. In the video the teacher explains how she has changed her classroom and how she changed her teaching due to computers. They students really like using the computers because they believe that they are helping them.

How the iPad Works with Academics for Autism
In this video Academics For Autism it shows a child with autism and how he uses an ipad with his parents to help him with his academic skills. There is a app called "First Words Feelings" that I would use to help my students. This app allows students to understand different feelings and emotions. It also helps them with their alphabets and learning how to spell. I think this app will help because the student can learn about their emotions and feelings, know what they mean, how to spell it and how to apply it to life. It just like playing a game that I know they will really enjoy.

Harness Your Student's Digital Smarts
In this video Digital Smarts talks about a teacher who turns away from what a traditional class is, which mean standing in front of a classroom lecturing, and try something new. She talks about her accomplishments and you will understand that she loves what she is doing. She explains how you must teach students how to be comfortable with any type of technology and she also states that "Students should be thinkers".
She explains how students should interact with other students their own ages from all around the world. It's amazing to me how technology can bring such a diverse group of people together. Technology in this world today is such a powerful tool and it has a major impact on our lives

C4T Comment

Taking Pictures of Strangers (comment 1)
I think that it takes a lot of courage to take pictures of people you have no connection with. I like how you gave a detailed description of the man playing the guitar and how you figure that he is telling a story through his music. The three hour digital photography workshop was worth going to because I really love the picture you took of the guitar player.
What made you want to become a photographer? That picture you took at the wedding was nice. I do hope that you'll get the chance to find that couple and share with them that wonderful picture. I like how you used this as a learning experience about taking chances and advantages of the moments that you get.
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(Comment 2)
Get to Work

In this article  Get to Work by Tony Baldasaro he is talking about how teachers give their students homework assignments and how they are to spend 60-90 minutes each night doing that assignment. But when he did virtual school, you could work at your own paces and the assignment didn't really have to be done at "home". With it being virtual school the students feel like it's just work but not homework.


What do you want to CREATE today?
Wesley frying is creating a new website and book called "Mapping Media to the Curriculum, where he is renaming and redrawing the products and calling it "No-Editing Podcast". Changing the navigational menu will allow visitors to browser any of the twelve products using a drop down menu instead of going back to the homepage.
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Blog 2 Did You Know?

Did You Know? 
In the video "Did You Know?" by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, they are stating that technique is very important. In the future mostly everything you do will have to be done using your phone, TV, or computer. He states that "India has more honor kids and America has kids".
They also states that, "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist..." I agree about student learning material that's not going to be helpful in the future. For example, with me becoming a Elementary teacher, they are making us learn formulas and information that you will not use to teach elementary children. Technology changes every year, information change, and new things are being invented, which fall into him saying "In order to solve problems, we don't even know are problems yet". His main point  is everyone is using the internet to do things.
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Mr. Winkle Wake
In this video Mr. Winkle is from a time where everyone did not use machines for everything. He is saying that  he is not used to computers doing things like printing out pictures and businesses communicating over the internet. Mr. Winkle is realizing that this is a different time in life and things are changing over time. When he visit the hospital he noticed that some things have changed. People being kept alive on breathing machines was a big surprised to him.
But something does look familiar to him when he walk inside of the school. He saw that teacher were actually standing up in front of the classroom lecturing the class while the students take notes. Today society, everything is being taught on computers.
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Important of Creativity
According to Ken Robinson, everyone has a interesting education. Children who graduate in 2006 will retire in 2065 but nobody has a clue. Creativity is very important in education. Robinson tells a story about a little girl who was in class drawing a picture and the teacher asked the girl what was she drawing. The girl answered, "A picture of God". The teacher said that nobody knows what God looks like and the little girl said they will in a minute. I believe that creativity goes along way and if you believe that you can do it, then you will succeed. Robinson uses comedy as a way to get his audience attention about education. He uses jokes as a attention grabber to get his point across. Children will take chances and are not afraid to be wrong. Robinson states that, "You don't grow into creativity, you grow out of it".
He also talks about William Shakespeare. He makes a comparison about how math and dancing are important but some people don't treat dancing like it is. Our education is based on academics. Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He also states that there are three kinds of intelligence, diverse, dynamics, and distinct. Robinson tells a story about a girl who couldn't stay still and people thought that she was sick. They discovered that she was not sick but she was a dancer and she had to move around in order to think. The task is to educated their whole being.
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A Day Made of Glass 2
In this video it's showing how everything is made out of glass and touchscreen. The author is implying that technique is a huge deal. In the beginning of this video they show a girl waking up and using a glass touchscreen device to pick out what she is going to wear. When it is time for them to go to car, they can change the color of the dashboard in the car with just an device.
The device that they use is like a mini glass thin computer, something like a nook or kindle. They use this device in class and instead of the teacher writing on the board, the board is made of this glass touchscreen device. They use this device as a teaching method, helping students mix colors together with just one touch. I think the author is trying to make a point that everything in this whole will be computerize and easy to use with one touch. He wants you to imagine what it would be like if everything was touchscreen and easy to operate. I thought the idea of having everything being touchscreen was cool but it will take some time getting use too. Mr. Winkle would really have a hard time adjusting the this new device on the count that he didn't like the way things were operating by machines.
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