Digital Blog Post #I

Hello to Chapter 4 Everyone,

First off this chapter jumps into academic content (what to teach). Like the book says of course teachers have to follow state and national guidelines, but these guidelines do not give teachers lessons word for word. And no teacher should be able to teach word for word because not every student can learn the way that lesson is presented. Teachers should be able to take guidelines and make something that is individually equipped to teach their set of students. And this is where technology can come in at such a useful time. It is well known that teachers, of all people, do not have the most time on their hands. Technology gives teachers a gateway to lessons that have already been worked up and just need a personal touch. Of course new/original lessons must be made up occasionally by the individual teacher, but who says you can put your own spin to someone else's lesson. The World Wide Web is filled with sites for teachers to find and display lessons.

Second it jumps into teaching methods, goals, and procedures (how to teach). While a teachers answer the question "What to teach", the can find themselves finding out their "how to teach". For every teacher their goals should be why they are performing the lesson. Methods are the ways that teachers relay the lesson to the students. Procedures are done during the lesson by teachers scheduling and grouping students and their decision of how much time will be spent on a lesson. These all support lesson development which is supported by different types of technology such as:

• ·         Presentation software
• ·         Visual thinking software
• ·         Web-based diagram- and flowchart-making tools
• ·         Teacher- developed websites
• ·         Threaded discussions and email
• ·         Podcasts, blogs, and wikis
• ·         Interactive software
• ·         WebQuests
• ·         Intelligent tutoring systems



Creative Commons Licence Photo By: Terry Freedman

Two cool Tech Tools I saw were web resources and apps for lesson planning and teaching. Which hits back to what I was saying about teachers not having much time on their hands this opens up some much more approaches. Some teachers feel as if they have little time or experience for other approaches and these resources show teachers examples and gives them a feel for what they're going for. I made a diagram of these in Gliffy but you can only save it as a link if you do not pay for the subscription.

Resources:

Gonzalez, Ivana. (2016) Gliffy Diagram. '

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.