Hello to all,
I hope everyone is doing well and catching up, finishing and getting used to the vast use of technology in the class, especially the Mac. I am sure that everything being on webct and the use of the Mac is different to most of us. Well, I have to say that out of all the tools we learned about last week, the two I most like are blogs and listserves. Just browsing in class on the groups in listserves, I was able to find a few groups that would be useful to have a connection with in the future. With participating on the blogs everyweek, I am able to think of ways I can implement blogs in the high school level.
"Teaching for Understanding" presented a number of ways teachers can benefit from using technology in their classroom. One of the ways was assessment. As a teacher we want to know where are students are so that we can best help them. It is often difficult to find the correct assessment tools. The article we read talked about the way technology eases the assessment process. I currently work with a high school math teacher. He is one of the few who implements the use of technology on a daily basis in his classroom. The second semester just started and he is using an assessment tool to find out where his students are. The article mentioned that it is important that students see the knowledge they come with and the improvment they show as the year progresses. It also talks about technology helping change lessons in the moment based on where students are. This reminded me of my history class I am taking. The professor is teaching a large class of about 90 students and he uses a clicker system at the beginning of class for assessment. He poses review questions and levels of understanding. Students respond by chosing their answer and he immediately sees the responses on the overhead. It is amazing how technology can ease assessment so that student's individual needs can better be addressed.
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Hi Roxana, I too also really enjoyed the things we learned this week. It was so easy to set up a blog that it would be a great tool for the classroom. I am also really excited to be able to have access to groups of teachers that want to share information with each other and help each other out. There is so many quick and easy ways to accomplish things using technology all you have to do is look for them.
Hi Roxana, well I totally agree with you in the sense that technology has made the job of teaching much easier. By using the different technology tools that we now have, we can perform an assesment on the students. At the same time, the tools that we learned last week were very important, for example when it comes to looking for groups. By finding a group of experience teachers enables us as future educators to seek help and advice from such people.
Hello Roxana, I haven't had a chance to browse through the groups of teachers available but I agree with you that it does seem to be a big benefit. Especially when we (one day) get our own classroom!
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