Social Networking
Social Networking is the way most of the students today communicate with each other. Email, texting, and instant messaging are all part of this social networking. "My Space" and "Facebook" are the way these kids socialize. The advantages of social networking are that you can communicate with lots of people at one time. It's a way of finding people that one has lost contact with over the years. The news media uses it because they can get many different views on topics in a very short time span.
On the other hand, social networking can be dangerous, specially to the young naive person. Sex predators and the other unsavory sorts often cruise the social networks looking for unsuspecting individuals.
Integration Corner
After going through the different websites on scsite.com/tdc6 I have picked my top three. Now everyone needs to remember I teach Kindergarten....
#1 Introduction to Computers and the Internet: This website gives lots of other websites that interact with other subjects such as the ABCs and Rhyming. This site has the students learning to move the mouse in order to play the different games.
#2 Internet4Classrooms: This is a great site for Kinder students. It has interactive kinder skills such as matching the capital letters to the lower case letters. It also goes through the ABCs and the sounds that they make along with other games.
#3 Teaching with the Web: This site is one that you can print out worksheets and has ideals on how to use the computer with lessons. I really liked it because it has different ideas on the different holidays. It also covers thinks that are on the TEKs such as Family and community and other related issues.
Streaming Videos
Streaming videos is great at enhancing lessons. At my school every teacher has an interactive white board in his or her classroom. We all have been trained on the Discovery Education website. It has information on every subject from Pre K to 12th. I use this website every week in everyone of my lessons from Science to Social Studies and others. For example we are discussing soil and the uses of soil in Kindergarten right now. There are videos or just video segments that can help introduce or reinforce what you are teaching. The videos help students relate to the subject better. This is especially good if you have visual learners. I recommend this site to everyone.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Technology Standards
Administrators and Teachers
Technology is fast becoming a necessary in life. The state of Texas has decided that students from Kindergarten thru 12th grade should be taught how to use the technology of today's world. In reviewing the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) put out by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) it is apparent that administrators and teachers both have similar and different rolls in implementing of these standards.
Administrators are to set goals that they feel will help the teachers and students to meet these standards. They are also to provide funding for equipment and training for the teachers. It is up to the administrators to see to it that all teachers are qualified to teach the students what they will need to learn upon entering the world after grade school.
Teachers on the other hand are the ones that have their work cut out for them. They are to attend workshops and trainings to become well rehearsed in the area of technology. They are to provide technology enriched lesson plans that the students can relate to. Teachers are expected to teach subjects in areas of math, science, English, social studies and others using technology to advance students' learning.
On the other hand both administrators and teachers are to provide guidance. Administrators are to provide teachers with guidance while teachers do the same for their students. They are both suppose to demonstrate and model effective use of technology and keep up with they rapidly changing technology from day to day. They are both to promote, model and establish safe, legal and ethical use of digital information and technology.
Digital Student
A digital student is one that can teach the teacher how to run a program, find information on the Internet. These students are the children growing up that have spent 90% of their life with some kind of technology in their reach such as, computers, ipods, video games, cell phones, televisions. These are the students that are well advance in research and technology but are sometimes lacking in the basic skills such as social skills.
Students
Students should first become familiar with the technology of the computer. Students should be able to learn how to surf the net in order to find information elated to a subject to determine if the information is credible and useful. Students must be able to learn to navigate safely through the web in order to research information. They must learn the legal and responsible way of obtaining information off the web.
Technology is fast becoming a necessary in life. The state of Texas has decided that students from Kindergarten thru 12th grade should be taught how to use the technology of today's world. In reviewing the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) put out by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) it is apparent that administrators and teachers both have similar and different rolls in implementing of these standards.
Administrators are to set goals that they feel will help the teachers and students to meet these standards. They are also to provide funding for equipment and training for the teachers. It is up to the administrators to see to it that all teachers are qualified to teach the students what they will need to learn upon entering the world after grade school.
Teachers on the other hand are the ones that have their work cut out for them. They are to attend workshops and trainings to become well rehearsed in the area of technology. They are to provide technology enriched lesson plans that the students can relate to. Teachers are expected to teach subjects in areas of math, science, English, social studies and others using technology to advance students' learning.
On the other hand both administrators and teachers are to provide guidance. Administrators are to provide teachers with guidance while teachers do the same for their students. They are both suppose to demonstrate and model effective use of technology and keep up with they rapidly changing technology from day to day. They are both to promote, model and establish safe, legal and ethical use of digital information and technology.
Digital Student
A digital student is one that can teach the teacher how to run a program, find information on the Internet. These students are the children growing up that have spent 90% of their life with some kind of technology in their reach such as, computers, ipods, video games, cell phones, televisions. These are the students that are well advance in research and technology but are sometimes lacking in the basic skills such as social skills.
Students
Students should first become familiar with the technology of the computer. Students should be able to learn how to surf the net in order to find information elated to a subject to determine if the information is credible and useful. Students must be able to learn to navigate safely through the web in order to research information. They must learn the legal and responsible way of obtaining information off the web.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
my first blog
I'm new at this and who knows if I'll ever be able to get back to it after I leave here but I made it here once :)
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