- A paragraph on which ELA technology standards you feel most prepared to teach with your existing knowledge and which require more learning on your part. People tend to think the ELA is soley based on Language Art, reading, and writing. ELA stands for Enlish Language Arts, so it makes sense that many people may believe that it is based on reading and writing. ELA is actually way beyond that. ELA is incorporated in every class in the school system. Every class includes reading, writing, and speaking. I plan on teaching first grade, so I looked into the ELA technology standards for this grade. The technology that I feel the most comfortable with teaching to my class include using online scavenger hunts, simple text features, kid-friendly websites, online textbooks, smartboard, blogs, and smartphones. The technology I need to learn on my part to improve my classroom include promethean board activities, pxlr, storyjumper, and mp3 recorder. I am excited to learn about these different types of techonology!
- The resource within the CPALMS Educator Toolkit that I would use is the different student resources to help teach science. I would use all of the different resources included within this. It gives me great ideas on lessons and how to teach it. They incorporate tutorials within with is very useful. Different examples of the resources within first science include Magnification, temperature, seeing stars, parts of a plant, and many more. The CPALMS will be very useful for me because these tutorial give me step by step ways to education the children in my classroom.
- The Newletter Design assignment was filled with many new skills I was not very good at. I was not aware how to add a date automatically or add borders. I also was not sure how to use WordArt. I liked making this newsletter because I know I will be making them in the future for my class. I did not like that it was graded so harshly because I believe that Newsletters are supposed to be unique and that made it a little less unique. Although, I do understand that it was created to make sure we knew how to use all the tools within Word. I will use all of these tool I learned in the future because word is so prevalent as a student and as a teacher.
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- Word is a huge part of my college career. I use word to take notes in class and to write papers or make assignments. Microsoft word is a great way to take notes because you can use bullets and different numbering. It is also great because papers can be exported in different ways, like as a PDF. Once a PDF is created then it is easy to share it with a teacher through email or canvas. Teachers also use Word to share these PDFs with us. When they make a syllabus or anything after that, they post it to us through canvas. Word is a huge help as a college student and teacher.
- In FSU copyright is very important. Everyone should be able to own there own work, and have the right to his or her own work. People put work in and should have ownership to it. I will make sure of this when I am a teacher. I will make it very clear to students that their work is theirs, they have control over it and should not steal work from someone else. This is important for the rest of persons life.
- Academic honestly, privacy, and cyberbully are all issues that can occur in a classroom. A solution for academic honestly is sending home a sheet in the beginning of each year for the students to sign, saying that they swear to be honest about their academics. I would also have the plagiarism check on papers. For privacy, every student can use their own computers when needed. For cyberbullying I will teach a lesson in the very beginning of school and share that this could cause depression or worse. I would take each other these very seriously in my classroom and make sure to prevent them.
- Many things influence teachers and students to use technology in the classroom. We now live in a world that is revolved around technology. Our technology driven world leads our leading methods to be revolved around technology. Teachers use smart boards and children use chrome books or computers. This is an easy way to share and receive information. Technology gives us information right at our fingertips. Students can google anything they need in the classroom through safari and they can also use word and other software to take notes and retain information. Technology in the classroom is very prevalent for both students and teachers.
- Today we learned about the ISTE standards. One standard that is meaningful to me is the collaborator. The collaborator dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practices, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. I think this is so important in life in general and for educators. Educators have all different resources and ideas and the best thing to do is share these ideas with one another. One standard that seems outside of my current skill set is designer. I am still learning about designs in technology, so I am not very strong in that aspect. I would love to learn to be a better designer so I could have a lot of lessons full of designs.
- A digital native is a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the internet from an early age. I both agree and disagree with the label "digital native". I do believe that more people are exposed to technology closing to this time in age because of how prevalent it is. Although, I also think it depends on the family as well and what they are exposed to. Children that aren't exposed to any technology in the classroom shouldn't be compared a digital native, while students that are exposed to technology both at home and in the classroom should. Some teachers and good with technology and some are not. The students in my classroom help my teacher with her smartboard each day because she is not an expert in this. I do not think this changes my learning experience because then the teachers are taught and are able to use it here on out. I believe it will be the same way when I am a teacher in the future. I know that my students may be more in-tune with the technology and I will be sure to have them inform me or go to a class on this to help myself and my student.
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