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Boston Morgan
Rebekah Linton
Randy Rayford

Blog Post #16

Final Reflection Video!

Blog Post #13

What Did I Leave Out?

For this blog post, I've listed a few things that I think should be taught in our schools today.

  

The Rise and Fall of Penmanship

This week we were assigned to do a blog post on what we believe should have included in our class assignments. Here's what I came up with,  as for me and my students. something, that I would highly enforce in my classroom is learning how to write legibly and writing in cursive. More so important writing so that people can actually read what the student is trying to say. You would be surprised how many adults here today actually do  not know how to write, spell or less known write their name in cursive.  Since I've been attending South Alabama I've heard the saying "please write so that I can read your hand writing at least 100 times this semester. Were all focusing so much on the use of technology till where at the point now we've forgot about the old fashioned ways. Since we are all grown and in college now, professors assume that we as students know these things but some people actually don't. Cursive handwriting is something that seems to me has just completely disappeared within the public school system and I personally think we as future educators should bring it back into our school systems.

Blog Post #12

After watching the video Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impaired Children, I found it to be very interesting to me. For one seeing how the teachers were active with helping their students really touched a soft spot. Patience is something that we as future educators must endure. 

Using some forms of technology can really benefit children and help them develop several different learning skills. Teaching Math to the Blind, was a very inspirational video on teaching students with hearing and vision disabilities. It helps these students with beginning algebra and much more. Another video was The Mountbatten, and I learned so many cool things about this piece of technology. This very unique tool can do almost anything your normal desktop could do. 

Blog Post #11

After watching all 6 videos, I've come to conclusion that the one I really liked the most would 
have to be BACK TO THE FUTURE by Brian Crosby. I think he had some really cool ideas for projects. The hot air balloon project was one I really found interesting. Not only did the students learn but they had the ability to use technology while doing it. In today's world, just about everything involves the use of some technology and allowing the kids to use it a very young age I think is a really great idea.  

In Blended Learning Cycle, Paul Anderson talked about the process of blended learning together which is the compelling design of mobile, online and classroom. He also uses the acronym Q.U.I.V.E.R.S which is his way of remembering the blended learning cycle. This simply stands for Questions, Investigation, Video, Elaboration, Review and Summary quiz.

    In the next video, Making Thinking Visible, Mark Church had his students to watch a video about early human beginnings. Then the Students would have to come up with a headline that tells you what he or she learned.  Later the Students worked together to come up with this phrase and write them down. Last they all were told to hang up their headlines and two weeks later to go back and look and them and see if anything had changed. I personally believe this was a really unique exercise Mr. Church had his students complete

 In Teaching Digital Citizenship which is by a fifth grade teacher in Omaha, Nebraska by the name of Sam Pane. Basically what he talks about is  teaching his class how to be good digital citizens.  This simply means teaching proper behavior and setting appropriate prohibitions. Watching what you post and the things that you share online because later in life you don't want those things to come back and haunt you in future. I think we can learn a number of things from Mr. Pane.

Roosevelt Elementary's PBL just shows you how Project Based Learning is used in the school. These projects are very helpful not only to us as teachers but to our students as well. PBL is something that we will continues to use throughout our career.