EME2040

Adaptive technologies are put into place to help students with disabilities whether they be physically or mentally. These technologies help them by being able to fitting into a regular classroom setting. These kinds of technologies are helping kids everywhere succeed and give individual feedback to teachers allowing them to construct their lessons plan according to the feedback they get back. The challenges I predict with using adaptive technology is that when receiving the feedback many of the students results could be scattered, where some could know everything and some of the students not understand at all. In this case it would be hard to format your lessons plan toward the feedback because the feedback is all over the place. Power point is a crucial tool used everyday in the classroom. Bloom’s Taxonomy has 6 major steps to it: evaluation, synthesis, analysis, application, comprehension and knowledge. Evaluation: In evaluation power point could be used to help compare ideas, or...

For my individual learning project I chose to participate in a educational twitter chat. Because of my newly found interest of Twitter from our assigned Twitter account I have learned to really like this application. I really liked participating in a twitter chat, because this application is so new to me this was my first time doing so. I find it extremely interesting that I was able to chat with so many people who are all different places in real time. In this chat I discussed the benefits of social learning. Social learning is learning that is done through example, or imitation. I believe that this type of learning style is extremely helpful, especially for me. Growing up I also needed extra help but once I was shown how to do it I could understand. This is a huge benefit in the classroom to have other students help other students.  This type of learning is suppose to be best for students because this allows them to recreate the action into their memories.

This is my first time using twitter so I was a little confused on how it worked at first. Once I was able to figure how it worked I really enjoyed using it. I can see hoe easy it is to share information and post questions that you may have for people to answer. It was really cool to me that I could communicate with someone across the country or even the world about issues with our educational system and how easy it truly was. This could be a really awesome educational tool if used correctly! I really enjoyed working on my web page design! This was really fun for me and I can see myself doing the exact same thing when I am a teacher! As a student I wish all of my teachers would have had those websites when I was growing up, it would have made my life and my parents life less stressful. I learned a lot using the web page design, I had already previously used Wix but I had never attached a calendar to it! Diigo is really useful in group settings, I like the idea of using this for group p...

The website I chose to visit was https://www.fsus.school/Domain/40 . This website was part of a third grade class at FSUS. After clicking on a particular teachers name I got the choice to visit her personal classroom website. This site brought me to a cute homepage where she had a welcome page. This welcome page was decorated with a picture of little monsters in the spirit of Halloween. From the homepage there was a side bar with different options of things to see, from about the teacher to the homework packets from each week. She has everything organized which allowed me to use her site with ease. Below is a screenshot of her home page! I can totally see myself suing a website like this for when I become a teacher. This would allow me to share information with my student’s parents and for them to be able to reach me, communication would run a lot smoother with such a tool. I also can see how it be easier for a parent to track what their student is doing if it is all online, for e...

I think the most useful Web 2.0 technologies would be both Youtube and TedTalks. Both these applications are used for sharing videos and when doing this it is easy to rely information to each other.  This makes things easier when trying to teach a class because it can shed a new light on what you are learning. Watching a video allows students to visualize what the teacher is teaching in class allowing them to get another view of that information. Throughout high school my teachers would show TedTalks to help explain things to us that were hard to teach or hard to explain. I found these super helpful as a student and plan on using them in the future. TedTalks and Youtube like I mentioned above are two of the technologies I plan on using the most when I become a teacher in the classroom.This is because when teaching younger students I found that this has been the most resourceful and allows them to actually see what we have been talking about in class. I think these tools would b...

Since this is my first time using Twitter it did take me a while to get use too. I had to learn all of the different tools twitter offered to be able to use these social media to my full ability. After getting into the swing of things I could see how this would be able to help me in my near future. It allowed me to connect with teachers from around the country and communicate with them on how they feel technology in important in the classroom. This was important because I could ask questions to other teachers and by doing this I was able to learn new and unique ways of teaching I would have never thought of it. I like the idea of sharing ideas to benefit all of our students. The digital divide is a major problem amongst our school and our students. Not every school has the means to provide technology to their students hindering their ability to grow as the students who do have access to these tools. This automatic puts them at a disadvantage at no fault of their own. As a future edu...