Week 9

     This week in class we learned a lot. We started off by learning about cheating in the classroom. We watched a video about different ways that students now a days are cheating ie-pop bottles, text messaging etc. It was very interesting to watch this video and watch the reactions of the people in the class. Most people in the class were very surprised by the ways and tactics that these kids had come up with which is a good sign. It's a good sign because that shows that most of them didn't cheat in these ways and that's always a good thing. We also learned about a virtual classroom on adobe. I thought that was really cool because you could have a white board and have the students write on that as well as have them raise their hands. I thought that was pretty neat. I had never even heard about anything like that. This all related to the first presentation about where technology is going to go in the following years. It's really crazy to think about that right now we have the technology to have class online through a computer who knows whats going to happen in the next couple years. Who knows maybe all classrooms will be taught online through a computer and you won't even have to be in an actual classroom setting. After that we learned how to make a concept map. I think that these are really awesome and i'm really glad we learned about them. I remember making them a lot when I was in elementary and middle school. We had to do ours by hand not on the computer. I think that doing them on a computer will make things a lot faster for kids now days. It is definitely a good resource and a good tool for studying.  We the finished with learning how to make a newsletter for our future classrooms.

     I think that I will actually be able to use some of these programs in my classroom. I would really like to be able to use the concept maps for sure. I think that it would really help the kids in understanding concepts. By laying them out in a map form and by ideas that will really help them. I would also like to be able to use the newsletter in my classroom. I would like to be able to send out those types of letters quarterly. I would not like to incorporate cheating in my classroom and if I catch cheating in my classroom it will be an automatic F for the semester.

     Some ISTE standards that we used today as students were:

• Creativity and Innovation: We started to create our own original works of the newsletters and also when we did the class activity of creating the concept map. We incorporated new existing ideas and concepts to make new ones. 
• Communication and Collaboration: We worked with the people in our groups to create concept maps.
• Technology Operations and Concepts: We had to understand how to use a computer. 

     

     Some ISTE standards that we used today as teachers were:

• Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity: We learned new ways in technology to help our students be more creative. We learned about concepts maps and how the students can be more creative by doing them online instead of just pencil and paper.
• Model Digital Age Work and Learning: We learned how to create newsletters to send to our parents and students in a better way to communicate with them.