The first video was a very important one because it deals with understanding how students learn. That is the most important component for teachers to address. When teachers understand different ways students absorb and comprehend information, lessons will be delivered and acknowledged more effectively. Are my students interpersonal learners, kinesthetic, tactile, visual, etc...These are all important questions teachers should ask themselves before planning any kind of lesson. However, one commonality among all learners, which was talked about in the video, is that they all learn digitally. I was not at all shocked at the statistics from the video-most college graduates spent more than 10,000 hours on the cell phone and computer and double that watching T.V. I can relate to these kinds of students because I am one; I am a digital learner. Teachers have to relate material and lessons to what the students are exposed to and relate it to what they know and understand. So what do these students know and understand...TECHNOLOGY!
Weather it be the newer Web 2.0 version, or still underdeveloped remains of Web 1.0, students understand technology. In order to properly implement technology into a classroom, teachers have to learn about technology as well. In the long run, students and teachers will be learning simultaneously about technology,which may be a shift on paradigm in the normal every day classroom.
After many tries at yuuguu, I finally got it to work! I thought this is another great tool for communicating purposes. Again, teachers can access this site and have conferences with colleagues near and far, and still learn a tremendous amount of information. There are so many different social networks out there, yuuguu is just another form of communicating via the Internet. I will most definitely consider using this one day to chat with fellow teachers and colleagues.
My link to my Final Project slideshare PPT
I thoroughly enjoyed working on my final project. Cognitively, I worked at higher levels because the majority of the information I learned was all new to me. One of my neighbors is a speech pathologist and is a pro at using and understanding different assistive technologies that are out there to aid in students communication and literacy skills. I learned a lot not only from her, but from my research as well. The powerpoint presention I put together was another enjoyable experience. I worked on it for about 5 hours and learned how to set each slide differently and how to add new color and boarders around the frame. I had a lot of extra time, so I played around with the ppt software and learned many useful strategies that I had now idea even existed. Slideshare is so so great! Not only is is extremely easy to use, all you have to do is upload a file and there it is, but every person on the Internet, depending on if you set it publicly, can view your work. It is a great way to get feedback on assignments as well as give reinforcement to others.
After completing this final project, I would love to learn more about assistive technology. There are so many different kinds out there that aid in all different types of cognitive learners, I would like to educate myself on more of them. My future goal as a teacher is to eventually work as a special educator, and what better way to incorporate technology into a special education classroom, than by using different types of assistive tech? I learned a lot from this experience, and enjoyed creating my ppt, and writing my lesson plan. I can not wait for my peers and professor to see the hard work I put into my project!
This is a wonderful YouTube site where a teacher explains how she uses assistive technology in her classroom. Take a look!
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