I feel most prepared with my existing knowledge to teach the
ELA technology standards of RL. 7: 2, RHST.7: 6-12, and SL.5: 9-12. The first
one is using “words & illustrations in print and digital text to understand character, setting, plot.” Words and
illustrations, whether in print or digital text are not much different, and
words and illustrations have their unique abilities to better understand the setting,
plot, and character. Illustrations are easier to understand the setting while
words are easier to understand character and the plot. The second standard is
including “charts, graphs, photographs, videos, maps, and research data” into
history and/ or social studies lessons. With the wide variety of educational technology
tools available to educators, it is easy to combine these forms of media into a
lesson. The third standard is being able to use the digital media listed from
RHST. 7: 6-12 in presentations in order to enhance this. I am currently working
on a presentation where I must include some of these tools so I already have experience
with it. As far as the standards that I feel the least comfortable with, those would
be RL.7: 7 and SL.5: 2. RL.7: 7 is being able to “compare written
story/drama/poem to audio, filmed stage,
or multimedia version, analyzing techniques such as lighting, sound color,
camera focus/angle.” While the first part of this, I can do and feel
comfortable with, I don’t know enough about film to analyze the techniques.
SL.5: 2 is creating audio recordings of either poems or stories. I am unsure on
how to create an audio recording.
With my age
range of twelve to fourteen, many of those students will just be hitting the
age requirements of many websites. I would like to use discussion groups with
my students. It would be a good way to teach them about being digital citizens.
Teaching and Learning with Technology says
teachers need to educate their students on communicating “clearly and precisely
without rudeness or inappropriate interaction.” By monitoring the discussions,
I cannot only have it be a valuable tool to take learning farther on many
subjects, but to teach them how to behave as proper digital citizens. I also
would like to utilize blogs where students throughout the year can post their
papers after I have graded them, so that by the end of the year they have built
an impressive blog. It would also test them on not using copyrighted material.
Some new
skills I acquired while working on the Newsletter Design assignment were how to
use columns which is a skill I need to know for a project in other class as
well as how to change the background color and to properly format paragraphs
for a newsletter. I really like the science fiction look I went with in my
newsletter. I feel the theme matches the robot/artificial intelligence field
trip well. I wish that I could have been able to better figure out the banner
and word art function which at times were hard to use. Next time I hope to
better understand the difficulties that I had in order to improve my newsletter
design. I look forward to the day where I can keep my students and their
parents up to date by using newsletters, especially as they are fun to design.
The use of hyperlinks will help when I email assignments, as the links can be
for websites that can help the student.
Citations:
McDonald, Jean and Judy Lever-Duffy. Teaching and Learning with Technology. United Sates:
Pearson, 2015. Print.
Cates, Michelle. ““Consuming” Tech Standards.” 2014. Web. 21
Sept 2016.
No comments:
Post a Comment