Blog Post 14

This week our assignment was to read a newspaper piece of writing “Teaching Our Children can be a Profession.” Mr. Joel Klein talks about how teachers are treated. Pick from the best, trying to find the best teacher for the job. Joel Klein believes that “we’ve let virtually anyone with college degree become teachers.” I think that we need to make sure that teachers are the best knowledgeable and skilled to fill the job position. Seniority distraction, I disagree that a new teacher should be fired because they are the most recent hired. The newly hired teacher may have a lot more information and practice in technology.

Blog Post 13

mathematics

I have been asked to construct an assignment that I believe that Dr.Strange left out that would be in my area of study. This week, I found some apps that can be used for the ipads, computers, cell phones, in the k-6 classroom. Provide a short explanation of what the app is about. If you do not have an ipad or computer you may use one that is in the library. You will need to give one example for each field of study. The topics you need to include are reading and math. Here is my example of the post I would give for this assignment: I have listed a few enjoyable learning apps for certain topics that are taught in a k-6 classroom. I sincerely liked exploring these apps and intend on applying them when I become a future teacher.

Mathematics app http:www.omore.com: SkyNumbers : “For a fun game that will refine your arithmetic skills, check out SkyNumbers. In this game, you're given a target number while other numbers fall from the sky. You must combine these numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to reach the target number. If a single figure falls through the last cloud, the game is over. The speed at which the numbers fall increases with time making this game a fun challenge. SkyNumbers has Game Center support and you can also share your scores on Facebook and Twitter. Free for iPads, with in-app purchases.”

Reading app: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-limits-of-reading-rainbow . “The Reading Rainbow tablet app is busier. It includes e-books, videos, and games, organized into sections with titles like “Action Adventures & Magical Tales” or “Animal Kingdom.” A lot of the old elements remain—field trips, books read out loud—but while the TV show was all about using the screen to get kids away from the screen, the Reading Rainbow app is about doing everything, including reading, on the screen.”

SMARTboard Lesson Plan: Part B

Interview Movie

Blog Post 12

Assistive technology is used in many schools. Assistive technology can help children with vision and hearing impairment. With assistive technology such as text to speech devices, speech to text devices, iphones, ipods, ipads and sensory aids impaired students can achieve the impossible. The most popular are ipads used in schools now. I found some apps for iPads teachers can use in schools. VizWiz lets blind user recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in real time. Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers. Google Search is so simple to use. Download this application and turn on the Voiceover option. Say what you would like to search for and Google reads the results aloud via voiceover. It is created by Google and free to download. Assistive technology can help these students by enhancing their learning, remove barriers, push boundaries, and give hope.

These are some of the assistive technologies that I found. There are so many tools that teachers can use to help visual and hearing students with their learning disabilities in the classroom. Teachers having tools design especially for children in their class rooms will get students engage in learning. They will be able to knock down brick walls and build new ones that all children can climb over. By Allowing all students with sensory impairments have the ability to identify, explore, question discover, engage and observe, and interact with their environment the sky is the limit.

C4K Summary

For my November 2 C4K had a student by the name of Marina a 5th grade student in Mrs. Horst class. In her blog title" citizen am I a good one" she list different types of being a citizen and explain why she is a good citizen. For example she talked about a local citizen because she do not litter. My comment was Hi Marian I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading your blog post. After reading your post, I think you are a great citizen. Great post. Keep up the good work.

For My November 09 C4K I had a student by the name of Caitlin that is a student in Mrs. Myers art class. In her blog she talked about a product design pouch she had made to carry her coins, checks and money in. My comments was that I am a EDM 310 student at the University of South Alabama. I really enjoyed reading your blog and great job on designing your pouch. Keep up the good work.

My C4K for November 23 was Mc. DeBuhr class. The title of this blog was “Twas the night before school starts.” In this blog it talked about all the preparation that it takes to get ready for the first day of school. My comment was that Hi; I am a EDM 310 student at the University of South Alabama. I really enjoyed your blog. I sure could use some hocus pocus the day before school. Great Blog.

C4T November

My teacher this week was Vicki Davis. She did not post a blog for this week so I commented on an older blog. The title of this blog was "Daily Education and Technology News for Schools". In this blog she introduces an app and a tablet. The Belkin Tablet stage turns an ipad into a document camera/presented tool. Life Note App it merges camera, video, and note taking. My comment was I am student at the University of South Alabama and taking EDM 310. I learned from the information you posted in your blog on the Belkin Tablet and Life not app. I really enjoyed reading your blog.

My teacher this week was Vicki Davis. She have not post any thing new for this week on her blog. So I commented on an older blog. this blog was about preparing students to do an elementary art project. Students were to visit the website and view videos about the event, creativity, and this year’s theme. Students don’t need Internet access, but if they have it, they’ll have more places to get ideas to create something. My comment was I like the idea of having student do research for their art projects. I hope to use this idea in my future classroom.

Project 14 Lesson plan

Lesson Plan: Title Little Duck Overview/annotation: After reading the book Little Duck students will explore and recreate a picture from the story using several different textures. Content Standards: Use selected materials to produce works of art. Use line, shape, color, texture, and repletion to produce works of art. Identify similarities among the visual arts and other disciplines. Primary learning objective: Students will be able to select different materials, such as line, shape, texture, and color to create a piece of art work. Students will be able to identify similarities among the visual arts and other disciplines in order to create a piece of artwork. Approximate duration of the lesson: 30 minutes Materials and Equipment: construction paper yellow and red, feathers orange paper plates one per student paint red and yellow and goodly eyes Technology resources needed: smart board and ipad Teacher should trace one of each of their student’s hands and have them already cut out of this project. Have one small circle cut out for the duck head. Have student bring in a picture they found with parental help of a duck to present to the class. The teacher can display these pictures using the document camera. Teacher reviews with students the different visual elements they can discover when reading a book. Key vocabulary line, shape texture and color Teacher makes each step of the activity using a document camera in order to keep students on task.

Blog Post 11

In the video “Sam Pane 4th Grade Building comics," Sam talks to his students about how to become a super digital citizen, how to use the internet safely, and how to evaluate web sites. He gets the students’ attention by using a quote that they all would be familiar with from the super hero Spiderman. The quote that he uses is “with great power becomes great responsibility.” He asks the students what kind of power does the internet gives us. He then allows the students to talk amongst themselves to come up with a solution to his question. A digital citizen is a person who acts safely, respectfully and with responsibility while online. The student gives their ideas of someone not being safe, respectful, or with responsible online. One student said that trying to hack another person’s computer or give personal information while on the internet.

He uses the term super hero to get the students to think and become creative thinkers, like super heroes. He demonstrates to the students how to build their own digital super hero character. This is done on a downloaded website that has templates they can use to model. It has three basic designs that can be modified or customized however each student would like. The student is able to create their own super digital citizen. Students would have to put it into an imaginable situation to help people. An imaginable situation is very much real world and narrative based. Students are able to create this narrative between themselves and their super hero to put together to complete their story. They can use pictures to give their character a sense of ownership about them. It makes the project more meaningful.

It can be used as a way to teach dialogue, visual text bubble that pops up on screen show that they are communicating with their character. Students are able to analyze the situation that they are in by using text and analyzing the textual structure of the comic book to build a complete character. Sam all his students to take a walk around their work station to view the work that they have done, read what the other student had to say, and critique their classmates’ works. The students were very excited about sharing their work to their class audience.

The comic book project allowed students to become more creative in making their character. The purpose of the project is to let the students know that they can be exposed online and to all sources of opportunity. They need to know that they will have to make choices as super digital citizen to be safe, respectful and responsible online. What we can learn from this teacher is that the teacher should allow the student to become a part of the project by writing a narrative to develop imaginable experience events, analyze how to visual and multimedia elements contribute to text, and to encourage the students to ask and answer questions.