This course has deepened my personal learning theory because it has provided me with tools to better myself in areas of weakness and strengthen my strengths. I struggle with motivating and getting students to understand that if you don’t pay attention in class or do homework you can’t get upset about the grade you make. I plan on incorporating the effort activity with my students to get them to understand that they have to put work into learning the material to make good grades. I was expose to several different technology resources throughout each week resources and readings. Two of my long term goals is to incorporate voice threads as way for students to review of the content. I plan to incorporate the voice thread for each unit taught after the Thanksgiving break. This will give me time to figure out all of the features of the program. I also enjoyed the virtual field trips an plan to create one for each unit. This will be time consuming trying to find websites that cover the information needed. I plan to spend at least 1 to 2 hrs. a week to search the internet for virtual field trips. Overall, I'm leaving the course with several technology tools.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Social & Cooperative Learning
Social learning and cooperative learning are very similar. They both have students work together in way to enhance their knowledge in a particular area. Student are able to get a better understand and construct meaning for the new knowledge. Social Learning cooperative is part of the 21st century thinking skills. Students must be able to think critical, and work together to solve a problem. I like to put my students in cooperative groups because sometimes students are the best teachers. There have been times that only a few students mastered a concept. I would take the students who mastered it and group them with struggling students. They were the teacher for the day. Eventually, everyone will get a chance to become the teacher for the day. The students really enjoy being the teacher. The student teachers are able to reach most of the students. When I group kids for an assignments each student has an important part in one student doesn’t complete their part then the project will be incomplete. I don’t like to assign parts like time keeper, recorder, and facilitator. I feel the laziest person in the group would select time keeper, the best writer recorder, and the bossiest person facilitator. Instead, my groups assignments are multitask and each student is responsible for completing their part. Social learning and cooperative learning is effective when used correctly.
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