Before completing this course, I was more of a social media, blackboard, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint kinda girl. I did not know much more than the basics. I never REALLY knew what a Web 2.0 tool was, a podcast, blog, and many other technological ways even though I grew up with technology. Technology is growing so fast, sometimes it's hard to keep up! After completing this course I feel a lot more comfortable and secure using more technology and adding technology into my (future) classroom!
I believe that we did in fact cover every object:
1.) Demonstrate the understanding of how technologies can effectively promote student learning.
Answer: Every week, we learned many new different technology resources to use with our students. Whether or not it is a WebQuest, an online project (Voki, Glogster, Podcasts, Prezi ect.), using Web 2.0 tools to find resources for your classroom or professional development. I believe that we have learned so many different tools to promote students learning.
2.) Evaluate and use a variety of current technologies to enhance content instruction and to advance students' technological literacy.
Answer: I believe that Kim showed us how to use and evaluate a variety of current technologies and we usually got a choice on which one we were more comfortable with. For example, we were able to choose our WebQuest resource. I believe that every Web 2.0 tool that we used, helped us extend our resources and comfort level with technology so that we present new and exciting learning tools to our students.
Answer: I believe that Kim showed us how to use and evaluate a variety of current technologies and we usually got a choice on which one we were more comfortable with. For example, we were able to choose our WebQuest resource. I believe that every Web 2.0 tool that we used, helped us extend our resources and comfort level with technology so that we present new and exciting learning tools to our students.
Answer: I believe that the most useful tool that we used for assessments was Rubistar at the end of the semester. We needed to make a rubric for our WebQuests. Finding and using this tool will help teachers have more access to rubrics and also give them a better understanding of how they should look, and sound for the students to understand what a 4,3,2, and 1 is while completing their projects, essays ect.
4.)Reflect upon and demonstrate effective use of digital tools and resources.
Answer: I believe that we reflected upon and demonstrated effective use of digital tools and resources when we were completing and presenting our lesson plans to the class. We were given different ideas to use for assessments such as, Prezi, Glogster, Podcasts and many more. We were also given many different teaching tools as resources to meet the Common Core Standards, ISTS and Frameworks.
5.)Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of safe, ethical, legal and moral practices related to digital information and technology.
Answer: After the week of learning digital citizenship, it really helped me better understand how important it is to teach the students to use safe, ethical, legal and moral practices online. You hear of so many horror stories of fights, bullying and even death because of online websites and other media tools. If we as teachers would bring the importance of digitial citizenship, I would hope it would help the students be more safe when they use social media and other tools online.
6.) Illustrate through application how state and national standards are implemented within the curriculum (NH Curriculum Frameworks, Common Core Standards, ISTE (NETS-‐Teacher/NETS-‐Student) and NH-‐ICT Literacy Standards for K-‐12 Students (306.42))
Answer: As teachers, we need to teach to the: NH Curriculum Frameworks, Common Core and ISTE Standards. We follow these standards so that we know what we're teaching the students and which standards we use for each lesson we teach.
7.) Demonstrate an understanding of the use of adaptive technologies and other digital resources to personalize and differentiate learning activities for every student.
Answer: Their are so many resources for students to use that adapt to the students learning. For example, Glogster, Glogster uses their own creativity to develop a "advertisment" poster for a certain unit.
Answer: I believe that we reflected upon and demonstrated effective use of digital tools and resources when we were completing and presenting our lesson plans to the class. We were given different ideas to use for assessments such as, Prezi, Glogster, Podcasts and many more. We were also given many different teaching tools as resources to meet the Common Core Standards, ISTS and Frameworks.
5.)Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of safe, ethical, legal and moral practices related to digital information and technology.
Answer: After the week of learning digital citizenship, it really helped me better understand how important it is to teach the students to use safe, ethical, legal and moral practices online. You hear of so many horror stories of fights, bullying and even death because of online websites and other media tools. If we as teachers would bring the importance of digitial citizenship, I would hope it would help the students be more safe when they use social media and other tools online.
6.) Illustrate through application how state and national standards are implemented within the curriculum (NH Curriculum Frameworks, Common Core Standards, ISTE (NETS-‐Teacher/NETS-‐Student) and NH-‐ICT Literacy Standards for K-‐12 Students (306.42))
Answer: As teachers, we need to teach to the: NH Curriculum Frameworks, Common Core and ISTE Standards. We follow these standards so that we know what we're teaching the students and which standards we use for each lesson we teach.
7.) Demonstrate an understanding of the use of adaptive technologies and other digital resources to personalize and differentiate learning activities for every student.
Answer: Their are so many resources for students to use that adapt to the students learning. For example, Glogster, Glogster uses their own creativity to develop a "advertisment" poster for a certain unit.
8.) Evaluate, adapt and reflect on emerging tools and trends by participating in local and global learning communities
and by reviewing current research and professional literature.
Answer: Refreshing your skills as a teacher is so important. One idea that all teachers should do is their professional development on campus as well as researching and listening to online podcast discussions. We learn through others.
Part 2:
Our students today are growing up in a technological environment, they're fixated on using technology and staying engaged in society. If we bring that to our classrooms, students will better succeed and stay engaged. Too read and better understand what I learned throughout this course, please read the top section of this blog post again. I loved this class, and feel better prepared to teach technology in my future classroom with many different new technological tools! :)
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