WWW- "To counteract with the new WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant."
This is the age of 'instant media gratification' where it is vital to be feeding the dendrites in the brain the right kind of knowledge that will serve the students the most successfully. They are at an age ripe and ready for knowledge, so I learned that we need to be feeding them with the most useful resources and skills that will continue to develop and progress throughout their student career.
High Tech Learning- There is a "big difference between providing access to resources and facilitating the learning process." Going along with the last lesson learned in WWW, this lesson also incorporates the importance of giving students valid and useful information- information that can give students a plethora of accessible opportunities to use when searching for any other educative information.
Shorthand- This article was very entertaining, but more than that, it gave me a few ideas for lesson plans teaching acronyms and poetry in English. Certainly it would be useful for the class to come up with other acronyms to use in texting to be funny or just to keep up with the growing rate of language changes in instant messaging, informal emailing, and texting. We, as teachers can incorporate social networking systems into our basic teaching tools and lessons to relate to the students, keep them interested, and teach them the madness/history behind LOL.
Did You Know- Teacher Tube is an awesome resource I had no idea existed before this assignment. I watched an amazing primary source on DDAY; in memory of the fallen. Primary sources are vital in teaching and this site was a great resource to make learning history interesting and real.
There are many resources out there that can help me become a better and a more up-to-date teacher. These are a few ideas, websites, and methods I can incorporate to make me a better teacher.
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