Week 5

     Today in class we learned about social networking sits. Some of the most common types of social networking sites in the United States are: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We learned how we could use these in the classroom and discussed if it would be a good idea to use them. I don't think that it would be a good idea to use in the classroom with the age group I will be teaching. I think that they are way to young and it is to dangerous to use. I know that most of them will probably already have a facebook or a twitter but I don't want to bring it in the classroom no matter what. That is something that they should be doing outside of school. We also talked about copyrighting issues and how you need to cite everything that you get. What I didn't know was that even if you just get a picture off of Google you have to cite it. It is something well learned and will not of course be used. We also learned how to make surveys on our Google sites. I can't say if this will be helpful in my classroom or not but it definitely is a good think to know how to use.

     I plan on using one of the two things that we talked about today in my classroom. I most certainly will not be using any social network cites in my classroom. I do not think that they serve a purpose for me and my major. I think that it would be very helpful for say English majors but I think that it would be really hard to incorporate math and social net work cites. There is just no need for it in math. Its understandable in other subjects but I just can't see myself using in a math lesson. I will however use the teaching of citing sources in my class room. Although they may not be citing a lot of things math related (unless they are doing some sort of project) but I will encourage them to make sure that they are citing things properly in their other classes.

Some ISTE standards that we used as teachers today were:

• Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: As teachers we learned something new that we can use to teach our students (surveys) and use in our classroom in a hope that the students will find it interesting and use creatively.  

Some ISTE standards that we used as students were:

• Creativity and Innovation: We learned to to incorporate our existing knowledge of technology into learning how to use it in a new way. And a creative way by now being able to create surveys online.
• Communication and Collaboration: We used our Google sites to talk to the other students in our group in order to create a story.