As the ability of students to access information via the internet continues to grow, the expectation of teachers to be Subject Matter Experts will decrease. Teachers will become more of a facilitator assisting students with discovering information along their educational journey. Teachers will help to keep the students on track and on task to accomplish course objectives, but will no longer be the funnel through which all information will flow. Students will more and more perform peer teaching and evaluations in the classroom. I would love this approach as I lean more toward the constructivist viewpoint of education. This will allow individual students to determine their own educational outcomes. This will be adopted much easier in private institutions however as they do not typically have state or federally mandated summative exams that they are forced to administer.
Assignment Reflections Padlet This was a pretty full week for assignments. I created a Padlet where students can submit their work each day and other students can comment on it. The way I am using this tool is kind of like a discussion board but in picture format. I used a background that was modeled after a calendar and created a Padlet on each day that students were working on project. Inside of the Padlet, students were encouraged to post their work and also provide feedback to other students. This was my first time being exposed to Padlet and I really enjoyed thinking about all of the ways it could be used in a classroom environment. Padlet Exercise Quizziz I have used a program similar to this called Kahoot! in the past. I like the ability of Quizziz to create quizzes as solo projects, homework, or host live games. I chose to host my quiz as a live game the keeps track of students progress. I am choosing to require students to sign-in for this activity to test the ability to capture parent emails to do reporting with. I may wind up going back to Kahoot!, but it is always good to have alternatives. Quizziz https://join.quizizz.com Code: 136947 Or you can join my class to take the quizz. Scoop.IT Scoop.IT allows the user to create something similar to a curated news feed. This allows a teacher to identify articles that are relevant to topics that are being covered the classroom. This can help create a safe environment for students to have access to the materials without full access to the web. I can see how this could make it easier for the teacher to specify the articles he/she wants students to read, but I also wonder if the tool doesn't hamper the growth of student's ability to conduct their own research on the web. If I were to use this tool in the classroom, I think that I would create a Scoop.IT feed with a few articles, but require students to maintain their own feeds as well. Hopefully this would allow me as the teacher to bring some focused articles to the students while allowing the students the ability to gain experience at searching the web for topical articles as well. Scoop.IT Exercise Rubrics with Rubria I used an online tool to create a rubric this week. I think that rubrics help students to clearly understand how their project will be graded and can serve as a a great checklist as students are preparing their project for turn-in. Rubria had a large amount of subject areas to choose from to help get started. Once the user chose a topic, they were able to choose various fields within that topic to create a rubric from. The user was also able to add their own fields. For example, in my rubric I added a category for presentation as I was creating a rubric that I would use to grade student's triangle presentations. Digital Rubric Thinglink Another tool that I used this week was Thinglink. This was a really cool tool that allowed you to update a picture, 3D image, or even a 3D photograph. The creator could then add tags to the picture that included audio, text, and/or additional imagery. I was really impressed with some of the examples. There was a 3D photograph of a library that gave the viewer the ability to move the camera around the environment to view different sections. The view could click on various areas to get more information about that section. It was like a virtual tour of the library. This tool had me wishing that I had not chosen a 2D topic so that I could explore how to do that a little bit more. I uploaded a geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem and added tags to label the legs and hypotenuse of a right triangle. In addition, I tagged the picture with a link to the NASA.gov website. This website gives a demonstration of how they use the Pythagorean theorem in solving problems and provides an environment where students can manipulate the drawing to construct a geometrical proof of the theorem. Thinglink Exercise Shane
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Gina Pepperman
7/23/2019 07:12:32 am
Shane you and I have very similiar backgrounds and feeling on computer usage. I completely agree with you and feel that if material is caught by the filter and proxies there is a reason. Unfortunately there are some websites that are filtered that are beneficial and if you have a great tech department you can ask them to look into those sites and open them. I also agree that webcams are not needed on school classroom computers, webcams can easily be hacked and this can create big privacy issues.
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Merita
7/23/2019 08:57:30 am
Shane, I had no idea this was going on in the schools. I think I am up to date on things, but then I find I am not. I watch to many Life time movies that do that kind of stuff, but it is on personal computers and they are spying on private families. I always cover my camera on my computers for that reason. I only found out recently what bit coins are because of this stuff. Some people are very cruel in this world, and some think they have the right to information that does not belong to them. I still hold to the fact that even if the computer belongs to the student, they are still on the school server, and should still be monitored.
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Shane Seal
7/25/2019 06:56:38 am
When you say that they are on the school server, what do you mean by that? The server itself will log every connection if that is desired. A student browsing the internet on their own computer outside of school hours is s different matter all together. It would be very hard to convince a student/parent that a school has a right to monitor their internet usage outside of school on equipment not owned by the school. How would the school even know it was the student engaging in the activity instead of the parent for example. I personally don't think that would ever be a position that a school would want to engage in. Now if the equipment is owned by the school, that is a totally different matter.
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