Comments 4 Kids
I read a student essay about animal testing written by a student named Anna, and I told her that she had a good argument against testing on animals. Also, she used correct grammar and had a very good introduction and conclusion.
Comments 4 Teachers
I read Dan Carver's blog this week. He is new to the blogging world, but has a fantastic first post. He says there is a shortage of teachers who don't talk about what they are doing in their classroom. I have to agree with him on this subject. I don't know if it is a time management problem or if teachers want to keep to themselves what's going on. I believe he will have a successful blog.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
March 28
I think Ms. Bayda's post was right on the money! She pointed out key points in education. I am so tired of having a professor stand in front of me and lecture facts upon facts for me just to sit there and scribble down only about 20% of what they said(editorial comment). We need to have a new wave of revolution towards education because if we don't embrase technology in education, tradional education will be a thing of the past.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Week 9 Post
ALEX
This week I studied the ends and outs of of the Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX). This site was very interesting in that its focus is on educators sharing ideas and lessons plans. ALEX provides links for teachers, administrators, and students. Also, the site offers course of study for all subject areas. If you go to the site it starts by giving you eight different choses(course of study, web links, lesson plans, search, personal workplace, professional learning, pod cast treasury,and help).
I was very intrigued by the site. I noticed that when I become a teacher it will help me to see what other educators from all over the state are doing in their classrooms. I also think it is a great site of teachers because it goes by the Alabama Course of Study. I will definitely use this site!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Week 8 Post
Comments 4 kids
This week I read a post from a student named Alexis. She was concerned about her brother being mean to her. I really didn't know how to comment on this issue, but I told her to hang in there and it will get better hopefully.
The Last Lecture
Listening to Randy Pausch's lecture, I thought it was the most profound lecture I have ever heard. It was not because he was dying with cancer, but it was a lecture for the way to live my life and how not to give up on what I want to accomplish in my career as a teacher. When he talked about hitting brick walls it made me think on what I do when I hit one myself. He said,"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. They are there to stop the other people.". I thought this statement he made was rather enlightening because it shows how if we want something bad enough we have to show how bad we want it even if it means rejection.
It was rather interesting to see how all his childhood dreams,in some way, came true. He wanted to float in zero gravity, be in the N.F.L., win stuffed animals, be (or meet) the captain of the Star Shop Enterprise, and be a Disney Imagineer. He met all his dreams by never giving up on them. That speaks a lot when so many give up on their childhood dreams.
He met his gaol of floating in zero gravity by his students winning a contest by NASA and he got to attend as a "Journalist". The next dream of his was to be in the N.F.L. , he didn't play in the N.F.L. , however he learned so much from his childhood coach of his football team that did in fact play in the N.F.L. The next dream was to win stuffed animals at fairs and carnivals. He wanted to do this because as a child he thought that all the big tough guys won the stuffed animals and he wanted to be one of them, and in fact he did win a lot of them through the years. The next dream of his was to be(or meet) captain of the Star Shop Enterprise. Instead of just him meeting his childhood ideal his ideal met him by seeing all what Disney(and Puasch) had to offer. The last dream was to be a Disney Imagineer. He thought since he had a PhD that Disney would jump on the chance to have him be apart of their team. He had gotten the nicest letters of rejection he had ever received from Disney saying there was no position for him in their company. He knew he still wanted to work with them, so he worked pretty much for free as a researcher on their next project. That got his foot in the door and eventually worked for Disney as a Imagineer.
All the hard work and determination he put in to all his childhood dreams payed off in one way or another. As he said before about the brick walls, they are really there to make us work harder and to weed out the ones that don't have the same determination that I have. I hope to use this bit of information when I don't get the "dream" job I want or have some sort of rejection in life. We all know rejection is coming in our lives, but how will you deal with it when it his your life?
This week I read a post from a student named Alexis. She was concerned about her brother being mean to her. I really didn't know how to comment on this issue, but I told her to hang in there and it will get better hopefully.
The Last Lecture
Listening to Randy Pausch's lecture, I thought it was the most profound lecture I have ever heard. It was not because he was dying with cancer, but it was a lecture for the way to live my life and how not to give up on what I want to accomplish in my career as a teacher. When he talked about hitting brick walls it made me think on what I do when I hit one myself. He said,"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. They are there to stop the other people.". I thought this statement he made was rather enlightening because it shows how if we want something bad enough we have to show how bad we want it even if it means rejection.
It was rather interesting to see how all his childhood dreams,in some way, came true. He wanted to float in zero gravity, be in the N.F.L., win stuffed animals, be (or meet) the captain of the Star Shop Enterprise, and be a Disney Imagineer. He met all his dreams by never giving up on them. That speaks a lot when so many give up on their childhood dreams.
He met his gaol of floating in zero gravity by his students winning a contest by NASA and he got to attend as a "Journalist". The next dream of his was to be in the N.F.L. , he didn't play in the N.F.L. , however he learned so much from his childhood coach of his football team that did in fact play in the N.F.L. The next dream was to win stuffed animals at fairs and carnivals. He wanted to do this because as a child he thought that all the big tough guys won the stuffed animals and he wanted to be one of them, and in fact he did win a lot of them through the years. The next dream of his was to be(or meet) captain of the Star Shop Enterprise. Instead of just him meeting his childhood ideal his ideal met him by seeing all what Disney(and Puasch) had to offer. The last dream was to be a Disney Imagineer. He thought since he had a PhD that Disney would jump on the chance to have him be apart of their team. He had gotten the nicest letters of rejection he had ever received from Disney saying there was no position for him in their company. He knew he still wanted to work with them, so he worked pretty much for free as a researcher on their next project. That got his foot in the door and eventually worked for Disney as a Imagineer.
All the hard work and determination he put in to all his childhood dreams payed off in one way or another. As he said before about the brick walls, they are really there to make us work harder and to weed out the ones that don't have the same determination that I have. I hope to use this bit of information when I don't get the "dream" job I want or have some sort of rejection in life. We all know rejection is coming in our lives, but how will you deal with it when it his your life?
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sorry for the delay!
Sorry everyone for the late post! My computer crashed during the weekend. Hoped I haven't set anyone back on commenting.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Week 7 Post
The Schools of Tomorrow
After watching Dr. Millers videos on technology and how it effects us now and will effect students in the future: I found myself asking what can I do as a teacher to expand on technology in my future history classroom? Knowing that my subject of choice is usually taught by primitive teaching methods; I want to be able to break away from that kind of teaching method.
I honestly is a great challenge for me to do this. Hopefully I will have a Promethean Board in my room. I have used this board before and enjoyed it greatly and so did my students when I was a paraprofessional. Also, I would like to keep a class blog about daily assignments and instructions for the assignments. This would help students who are out to catch up with their assignments when they are at home(if they have a computer and internet).
I am interested by what Dr. Miller said when he talked about the future of word processing and how it really would not be in existence in the future. I really thought the New York Times spread was really neat because of how the way he made it flip into another article. That kept me interested,I know it would my students.
Networked Student
Why does the networked student need a teacher? Because he or she heps the student separate a good source from propaganda, how to make a search for information a scavenger hunt, and to show the student how much they have done and to be proud of their accomplishments.
Am I prepared to teach a networked student? At this point NO, they would have to teach me a few things. I do not feel ignorant on technology, but I know I need to learn a lot more to be confident in teaching a student such as this.
I would, however, like to have my students do a P.L.N. for my future class. I believe it would be very beneficial to them to see there accomplishments as a P.L.N. and not just a letter grade. For my P.L.N. I would like to follow Ms. Drexler's blog. I think it would be very beneficial to me to follow her blog.
Comments 4 Kids
This week I read a student's blog and her name was Alexia. She wrote about how to grow beautiful flowers and plants. She did a really great job describing what had to be done to have a wonderful garden.
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