Digital Blog Post l- Chapter 12

For this chapter, I found topics that I both knew and didn't know.   The first was the Adoption Stage in technology that teachers have.  I can relate to this, as I use technology in class with my students, but I don't use it all of the time as I am still not comfortable with it.  I am slowly working on the idea of facilitating it more throughout lessons, but I am still old-fashioned I feel.

My next topic is the One-to-One Laptop Computing.  I wish this were something that funds could go to for my students.  They would benefit so much from being able to have the technology with them each day to access whenever they wanted and look for more information when it benefited them.

The last topic I chose that I enjoyed was the BYOD Programs.  My school has recently implemented this into classrooms, and while I enjoy the idea as I do the One-to-One Laptop Computing, I also feel that it can be distracting as students attempt to do more than just the assignment given by the teacher.

Below I created a Canva, which I am now considering to use to help make my brother's senior invitations.  It  had a lot of neat features that I can't wait to use for other things.

References

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Digital Blog Post K- Chapter 6

Chapter 6 was interesting in that as a class we were going back to different ways in which to use the Internet.  The first one I read about that peaked my interest was virtual field trips.  I love this idea!!! First off, any student could partake in something like this.  What is also great is a teacher could make a lesson out of something like this and use it for students to find information and enjoy doing it at the same time.  Just putting the words 'field trip' into the day's lesson would have students so excited to work on something like this.

The next topic that caught my attention was skills practice websites.  I recently found one of these for my students that is for math, and they love it.  Funbrain is the website, and I used to do this when I was in school.  My children love it as they practice math skills and can do them anytime, anywhere.

The last topic that I truly enjoyed reading about was the exploration and discovery websites.  I think in a way this correlates with the virtual field trips.  For example, in science I can use National Geographic as a website to better facilitate that day.  Yet, it is an exploration for the students to find facts about animals or a certain group of people.

References

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.