Well not much to be said about Things 3 and 4, but WOW!!! I had know idea about all the information that you could get without having to keep searching for it. I set the daily news as a feed in my Google reader and I can just skim the headlines to see if I want to read more about the article. I did and still am have a little trouble with one of the feeds and can seem to figure out what to do. http://www.techlearning.com/blog does not seem to be the most friendly blog to try and follow. I cannot ever seem to get just one part.
Anyone else having trouble with this one?
Help Please!
Talking about the world at your finger tips, it is all here and more that you may ever need or want. I love watch my Google Reader and it just keeps showing more information each minute.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thing #2 part 2
Ok, so here I am again back to my same old self. I have stated before the Time is NOW. -http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=349/ In this blog he states along the same lines that I do, We Must embrace the technology at hand and start using it in our classroom.
If we look at the blog on the new digital divide.- http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/the-new-digital-divide/, we see that those views are also about not where we are but where we need to go and how do we take our students there with us. I worked in Resturant/ Retail Management for many years before I decided to become a teacher. Every year we would get new technology to make ours jobs easier and make sure our inventory was where it needed to be to make sure what we brought in was going out through sales and not through theft. Well now I am a teacher and I can definently say that techonolgy in the schools does not even attempt to keep up with the real world. When I first started teaching the computers I was using still had Windows 98 on them, well the rest of the world was already using Windows 2000 and then XP. Well now technology is Windows Vista, but we are still on XP. Times do change and the cost do effect everything we do, but Are we hindering our students by not keeping up with the times so that they will know how to use the technology that is out there.
If our children are our future then we as parents and educators need to support and want for our kids to be able to learn on the latest and greatest technoloy there is. Our government needs to provide the financial resource so the antique-dinosaurs, we call computers, can be replaced as often as the technology of the future happens. We keep saying we want our student to perform to the standards of the world and we are relying on them to be able to go from school to the workforce and be the most creative productive people in the world, but I don't think we do the students justice if we can't give them all that technology has to offer to them.
As is written in this blog Imagine turning on a facuet..... -http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2007/10/07/imagine-turning-the-faucetand-nothing-coming-out
What if this happens in technology?
Can our students really be prepared if we don't give them the tools?
How can we expect what we can't provide?
If we look at the blog on the new digital divide.- http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/the-new-digital-divide/, we see that those views are also about not where we are but where we need to go and how do we take our students there with us. I worked in Resturant/ Retail Management for many years before I decided to become a teacher. Every year we would get new technology to make ours jobs easier and make sure our inventory was where it needed to be to make sure what we brought in was going out through sales and not through theft. Well now I am a teacher and I can definently say that techonolgy in the schools does not even attempt to keep up with the real world. When I first started teaching the computers I was using still had Windows 98 on them, well the rest of the world was already using Windows 2000 and then XP. Well now technology is Windows Vista, but we are still on XP. Times do change and the cost do effect everything we do, but Are we hindering our students by not keeping up with the times so that they will know how to use the technology that is out there.
If our children are our future then we as parents and educators need to support and want for our kids to be able to learn on the latest and greatest technoloy there is. Our government needs to provide the financial resource so the antique-dinosaurs, we call computers, can be replaced as often as the technology of the future happens. We keep saying we want our student to perform to the standards of the world and we are relying on them to be able to go from school to the workforce and be the most creative productive people in the world, but I don't think we do the students justice if we can't give them all that technology has to offer to them.
As is written in this blog Imagine turning on a facuet..... -http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2007/10/07/imagine-turning-the-faucetand-nothing-coming-out
What if this happens in technology?
Can our students really be prepared if we don't give them the tools?
How can we expect what we can't provide?
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thing #2 part 1
Reading different blogs, I have noticed that there is not really any correct or incorrect way to make a blog or to write in one. *They can be short, They can be long. They can be written to persuade or simply to inform, they can also be used just as a venting space to see what others are experiencing and how we can help each other.*
Reading a blog is no different than reading a story, Writing a blog seems to be less formal.
The way I see a blog---- I can use them to inform----or I can use them to get others opinions on some topic that I am interested in. The more people that respond to or comment on a particular blog, the more knowledge I can gain. If I am using one to inform, then my students can make their comments according to what I have posted.
Collaboration is the key to greater success. The more communication between students and their classmates and with their teachers, the better the outcome of their education. When we post to someone else's blog we must take care to only enhance what is written. We are not there to criticize but to gain knowledge and add supporting comments or simply comment on a differing opinion, or give our own slant to a blog.
These are my thoughts right now, I am still investigating my opinion and will post more in part 2.
Reading a blog is no different than reading a story, Writing a blog seems to be less formal.
The way I see a blog---- I can use them to inform----or I can use them to get others opinions on some topic that I am interested in. The more people that respond to or comment on a particular blog, the more knowledge I can gain. If I am using one to inform, then my students can make their comments according to what I have posted.
Collaboration is the key to greater success. The more communication between students and their classmates and with their teachers, the better the outcome of their education. When we post to someone else's blog we must take care to only enhance what is written. We are not there to criticize but to gain knowledge and add supporting comments or simply comment on a differing opinion, or give our own slant to a blog.
These are my thoughts right now, I am still investigating my opinion and will post more in part 2.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thing #1B stretch
What if?
All the books combusted. We need more information that our school had.
What if a student was so interested in a topic, and we could not help them?
What if…..?
Our time is here and our time is now. We must embrace technology and start using what we have and keep pushing for more. How can we say we want to teach if we don’t want to learn ourselves. Our goal as people in a society should be to learn something new everyday. If we don’t we can never prepare our students to be all that they can be or need to be for a successful life. Our students here in 2009 will be performing jobs that don’t even exist yet but are on the edge of reality as we no it.
I want to catch up to where I am at the best position to force my students into the reality of what they will have to accomplish just to be able to survive.
There was a time when a Bachelors degree was enough, but now if we do not educate ourselves, we miss the boat on what the students of tomorrow and beyond need.
Thing #1B
I remember a day long ago when I had to dig through books to find out relative information for any topic I was trying to find information on. Now with all of the electronic resources the information is literally in our hands. I attended a bible study the other night and one of the girls that was in the group did not appear to have her bible (which was clearly stated to bring it), but to my amazement her entire bible was loaded into her cell phone. This makes me wonder where will we be next year. I already try to teach my students how to use technology in the classroom, And this is when I realize that I am the one who needs to catch up. So many teachers are embedded into old school ways that they do not stop to think what do I need to do to keep up with the times and prepare my students for their future.
We have technology coming at us everyday and we need to grab hold of it and immerse ourselves into the future. When I am able to use technology with my students they seems to understand and pay attention more to me and the classwork.
The old ways are still here, and some teachers are still holding on to those ways, but if we truly want to engage and help our students we really need to jump on the technology bandwagon and plunge into the great unknown. Our textbooks are electronic, and our knowledge is but a click away. Teaching out of a book is not how a student is going to learn and we as teachers need to push these children into the future so they will be able to compete in the real world.
Now as for us teachers, if we would start using the resources that are available we could go far in helping ourselves, as well as, our students. If we were collaborating with each other through blogs and could contribute to each others classes I think we would begin to want to most for our students and stop thinking that our subject is the only one that matters.
We have technology coming at us everyday and we need to grab hold of it and immerse ourselves into the future. When I am able to use technology with my students they seems to understand and pay attention more to me and the classwork.
The old ways are still here, and some teachers are still holding on to those ways, but if we truly want to engage and help our students we really need to jump on the technology bandwagon and plunge into the great unknown. Our textbooks are electronic, and our knowledge is but a click away. Teaching out of a book is not how a student is going to learn and we as teachers need to push these children into the future so they will be able to compete in the real world.
Now as for us teachers, if we would start using the resources that are available we could go far in helping ourselves, as well as, our students. If we were collaborating with each other through blogs and could contribute to each others classes I think we would begin to want to most for our students and stop thinking that our subject is the only one that matters.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thing #1A
I have never set up or even posted to a blog before. I hope it is as easy as some people say it is. I will be glad when other people start posting, so I can see if I really know what is going on.
Thing # 1A
My name is Chris, and I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grades. I teach Special needs students all subjects. I have been teaching for 6 years and I wanted to increase my technology abilities so I can teach some of them to my students.
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