The first item I want to blog about is the video on YouTube. The video was titled "A Vision of Today's Students", and it gave such interesting facts about how the use of technology has actually taken over as the main landscape in terms of communication. The video opened with a quote, it stated that the 19th century child was struggling from how education has not yet evolved to what or society has become, and the fact in the quote that got my attention was that the quote was written in 1967. In 1967, technology was not even an issue at that point in history, but rather a change in human behavior was changing for time.
What I learned this past week was first my technological capabilities. The class was assigned a "Technological Literacy". This assignment was a checklist of the basics that I could and could not perform. For the most part I am fairly adequate for what I need to be able accomplish in the classroom in terms of being technologically proficient. Some other things such as learning how to make banners for my classroom and using technology to plan strategies in an technological advanced environment.
The first I want to learn and improve upon is making a banner for my classroom. Banners are objects that can be made on your own personal computer by programs Banners are a terrific way to present information on things such as classroom behavior expectations. Another way I will use a classroom banner is for material presentation, such as the beginning of the week, a banner can state what we will be the focus that week in class. It can be an attention grabber, or I can use it as a constant reference for the students. With a visual aid that is attention grabbing, students can often have a reference to refer to when they have questions.
The other incompetency that will be addressed is to manage student learning in a technology enhanced environment. Students today are more adapted to social networking sights and often use these websites to establish and maintain this as their constant form of communication. Social networking websites, such as Facebook, have “walls” that can be written on for the sake of immediate but yet public communication that can grab the immediate attention of students and parents alike. The plan that will be implemented is the use of Facebook. A page for the class that is being taught would be formed and then request students as friends. Every night or however often the need of posting information is, a link to a video, a reminder to student and parents, or whatever form of valuable information that needs to be communicated can be expressed immediately. Allowing for both students and parents to be actively notified and involved for the greater good of the student.
The obstacles to overcome concerning any technology youth is the abuse of technology. There is the issue of too much facebook or MySpace, but also the issue of plagiarism and things of such. The only way you can overcome this is to be proactive. I work in our alternative school and a tool that I utilize is a program called "Sychroeyes"...it allows me to see every screen that is on in our room and has been a great asset. If you do not have these tools, just be active and monitor closely to what the students are doing.
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