The central message in this the short film Mr. Dancealot is that just reading from a screen but to make the students get up and try the dance out itself. The author makes this conclusion by at the end having all the students with their notes out for them to take the final but without first hand experience they were doom to fail. I agree with the authors conclusion because not everything can be read off a power point and the students able to understand the subject at which they were being taught. Being just a reader as a teacher is not a successful way to be a teacher or professor.
Robert thinks that teaching is a way to engage the students by using new technology to help understand a lesson. Technology is not a full on teacher and can't provide some simpler answer like a teacher can but technology can be used to help out a teacher or student question.
I. Robert's teaching
A. He says "students can find information anywhere"
B. He states "that they can find information anytime"
C. He states "they could look up whatever information they would like to know more about".
1. from Google, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, and cell phones
II. Robert ask questions technology can barely help with
A. He asks " who should I vote for?", " where can I get reliable news?", and also "What to do if I have a layover?"
B. Technology can't provide the answers to all these questions but another person like a teacher can show the student how to and also use technology to see how it could help them.
III Robert Uses technology to help
A. Last Robert ask how can it help by using technology.
1. technology can help students anytime, anyplace, or anywhere. A teacher can not do that they can only help when the student wants the help.
It will affect me as a teacher by trying to use new technology that I've never seen a teacher use use it in class to help the students engage in class. by knowing more about technology it can help the students fully understand the lesson.
In "The Networked Student" by Wendy Drexler she is trying to show how a college student ,from the twenty first century, can be in an online course just like EDM310. He can use and gather information from the web, and share it with all his classmates, co-workers, friends, and family.The video shows how he can use the information he got to post it in a public website for anyone to see it. At the end of the video the big question is why he needs the teacher. The teacher is there more for guidance to make sure that if he is confused to give him advice on what she thinks is the best thing for the subject. My reaction to the video was ,as a college student, very questioned why he even thought that he didn't need a teacher. I thought not everyone in his class is going to completly understand everything that is going on in class. I may have had a couple of online classes but I always go out there and find my professor if I had have any questions regarding the work I was doing.
The main point in "Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts" by Vicki Davis is that teachers should not know everything but also want to learn just like the students are. Her argument is very valid I do believe that if you teach something and the child does not fully grasp it they should look it up and if that does not help then ask the teacher for the help. With the children in her class also be teachers can help not only the students in the class but can help the teacher also. Because, a teacher maybe there for the students to learn from her they can also help the teacher learn new things.
I am an undergraduate at the University of South Alabama and after watching "Who's Ahead In The Learning Race" by John Strange the answer to the question who is ahead in the learning race seems really simple. Obviously the Elementary children are ahead of any college student with technology. I do believe that then it would have to be the undergraduates and then the graduates at the university.
In "Flipping the Classroom" children use the computer at their home and watch videos of the teacher teaching the next lesson for the next day. With this new way of teaching the children to pre learn things they can gather new questions before they enter the classroom of what they do not understand so the teacher can help them faster and easier. This way ill make sure that a lot more learning will be done and less time doing the problem and then helping the child out. If the students can understand and do the work correctly it can make for a lot less time on the teacher to teach but help the ones who are confused by this problem.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Blog #1
I have heard a lot of different things about EDM310. I have heard that this class will take time, will take practice, will take teamwork, and will take self teaching. I have also heard that not to take this course so seriously that in time it gets a lot easier. I have also heard that EDM310 is one of the hardest class because you have to do everything and if you miss anything you miss will be severely penalized no matter what the excuse.
My fears for this class are missing an assignment and also missing a day of class. My biggest fear in this class is not passing with an A. EDM310 has lowered some of my friends' GPAs.
EDM310 is different than any of my other classes because the class is mostly online teamwork. I have worked with classmates in class but never on my own time. It will be very interesting how we are going to have to work with many students trying to find the same time that all of us could attend. In other classes it's all online except for a presentation and this class is a blended class which requires more online than in class.
The most difficult thing for me in EDM310 may be making sure I have all my work done and done correctly without a teacher telling my that this is wrong and help me out. There is also the fact that I may watch something or read something and misinterpertate what the video or website was trying to tell me.
The best way for me to address this problem would be for me to either watch the video or the book many times so that way i wont be confused in my work. There is also try and get in touch with my classmates so I can see if they are seeing and understanding the same thing that I am seeing.
My questions for EDM310 are why not be more online then offline, why have blogger be such a big deal, and why not be more of a technology class. My best ways to address these questions are to wait and find out what exactly we are truly doing in this class. I will find out all my question in do time I suppose.
My fears for this class are missing an assignment and also missing a day of class. My biggest fear in this class is not passing with an A. EDM310 has lowered some of my friends' GPAs.
EDM310 is different than any of my other classes because the class is mostly online teamwork. I have worked with classmates in class but never on my own time. It will be very interesting how we are going to have to work with many students trying to find the same time that all of us could attend. In other classes it's all online except for a presentation and this class is a blended class which requires more online than in class.
The most difficult thing for me in EDM310 may be making sure I have all my work done and done correctly without a teacher telling my that this is wrong and help me out. There is also the fact that I may watch something or read something and misinterpertate what the video or website was trying to tell me.
The best way for me to address this problem would be for me to either watch the video or the book many times so that way i wont be confused in my work. There is also try and get in touch with my classmates so I can see if they are seeing and understanding the same thing that I am seeing.
My questions for EDM310 are why not be more online then offline, why have blogger be such a big deal, and why not be more of a technology class. My best ways to address these questions are to wait and find out what exactly we are truly doing in this class. I will find out all my question in do time I suppose.
Practice Blog Post
I. My Life
a. where I graduated
b. where I live
c. My hobbies
II. Why history
a. who inspired me
b. how he inspired me
III. What a teachers entails
a. New technology advances
b. Way to cope with children's personal life
c. How to change with new knowledge and new technology
IV. What to get better on
a. Being more able to adapt to knew technology
b. Being able to handle stress better
c. Staying calm and cool
V True Interesting
a. Wrestling
My name is Caleb Fleming. I went to high school at Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, AL, which is a six A school, and I graduated in 2011. I am the youngest of three children and the only male to carry on my grandfather's last name. I currently live here in Mobile at Greentree Apartments. My hobbies include any sports or activity. If anyone ask me to join no matter what the sport or activity is. My favorite two sports are wrestling and football. I was the first wrestler in my high school and I was a four year varsity player in football for my high school.
I was inspired to become a teacher by two of my ex. coaches and also ex. teachers. They were inspiring me after I broke my leg my senior year by sitting me down and telling me about the goods and bads of teaching. They let me sit in class and show how if they as teachers fail to inspire children to grow up and inspire them to become something special with their lives.
A teacher is suppose to be able to keep up with technological advances so they may keep up with the students trying to learn not only in class but also at home. For teachers to properly teach they need to know how a computer runs and also what new device is out. Teachers also has to handle a child's personal life that some of the teenagers out there are working forty plus hours and going home to be a full parent to their own brothers and sisters. A lot of teenagers have to act like a father or mother to their own brothers and sisters, because some parents are unable to work.
I am always a happy go lucky person. I always smile and make people smile by being my goody self. There are rooms for improvement that I need to go through to become a great teacher. One is to stay up to date with technology and its advances. Two is to be able to handle stress from other teachers and principles. Last is to stay cool and clam when someone yells at me.
My true interest in life is to try to bring down wrestling down here in the south Alabama. Many high schools south of Montgomery do not have a high school wrestling team. Wrestling can teach kids alot like being self independent and also to be just as mental as strength.
a. where I graduated
b. where I live
c. My hobbies
II. Why history
a. who inspired me
b. how he inspired me
III. What a teachers entails
a. New technology advances
b. Way to cope with children's personal life
c. How to change with new knowledge and new technology
IV. What to get better on
a. Being more able to adapt to knew technology
b. Being able to handle stress better
c. Staying calm and cool
V True Interesting
a. Wrestling
My name is Caleb Fleming. I went to high school at Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, AL, which is a six A school, and I graduated in 2011. I am the youngest of three children and the only male to carry on my grandfather's last name. I currently live here in Mobile at Greentree Apartments. My hobbies include any sports or activity. If anyone ask me to join no matter what the sport or activity is. My favorite two sports are wrestling and football. I was the first wrestler in my high school and I was a four year varsity player in football for my high school.
I was inspired to become a teacher by two of my ex. coaches and also ex. teachers. They were inspiring me after I broke my leg my senior year by sitting me down and telling me about the goods and bads of teaching. They let me sit in class and show how if they as teachers fail to inspire children to grow up and inspire them to become something special with their lives.
A teacher is suppose to be able to keep up with technological advances so they may keep up with the students trying to learn not only in class but also at home. For teachers to properly teach they need to know how a computer runs and also what new device is out. Teachers also has to handle a child's personal life that some of the teenagers out there are working forty plus hours and going home to be a full parent to their own brothers and sisters. A lot of teenagers have to act like a father or mother to their own brothers and sisters, because some parents are unable to work.
My true interest in life is to try to bring down wrestling down here in the south Alabama. Many high schools south of Montgomery do not have a high school wrestling team. Wrestling can teach kids alot like being self independent and also to be just as mental as strength.
Monday, August 18, 2014
My Test Post Title
This is my first post. I clicked the HTML button which I should always do in EDM310. I am now a Blogger!
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