week 12 exit slip

Today we found out we don't have class for weeks 14, 15, and 16. I think this will be helpful in having more time to get our inquiry questions done.

Chapter 8 presentation:

They brought up the fact that with the certification route the book presented, there might be issues in terms of hiring teachers to teach these certification courses. Right now we hire teachers to teach basic core subjects, but think how many more teachers we would have to hire to teach these very specific skills. I like it when teachers use course management systems. It’s nice to have all of our classes on one rather than multiple sites. I like having a website to look up class news, assignments, post discussions, etc.

Contemporary Issues:

Using Calculators in student learning: I think students need to learn how to do basic math without a calculator. Calculators should be used to check your work. Regardless of whether a calculator is used or not, I think students need to understand how to do math problems and the processes involved in solving them, not just memorizing math equations.

iPad and it’s educational uses: It’s like a big iphone. It has a lot of applications and has internet access. You can buy a keyboard for it and it is touchscreen. Touchscreen is good for young children to use who haven’t fully developed their fine motor skills.

Social Networking Sites Affect Professional Career: I think teachers should be allowed to have profiles on these sites as long as they keep it private and do not add their students, student’s parents, and co-workers as “friends.”

Using Technology for literacy instruction: I liked Caley’s idea of using the ipad to draw and print out the drawing. That way you can have a concrete copy and a digital copy. I think it would be really cool to create online storybooks. I have been creating a homemade storybook this week and it is taking really long. I think making an online one would be more efficient.

Cool Tools:

Poll Everywhere: This would be a good way to take class votes. We learned that allowing the students to make choices in the classroom in such ways teaches them about democracy.

Kadoo: file sharing website that allows you to share photos, videos, music, documents. It’s also similar to facebook because you have a profile and can write a status. It seems very annoying to only be able to upload one photo at a time.

Woome: this is a dating website. I would not use this in my classroom.

ooVoo: Videoconferencing, send recordings to people if they are not online, chat. You could use this for providing extra support to students by posting online tutorials.