YouTube can broaden a teacher's audience to include the world! Here's an article that shows how five professors use YouTube to show off their unique styles of teaching. Choose one that interests you and watch the video, then post a comment telling what you liked and/or didn't like about the video and how you might adapt one of that professor's strategies to your own teaching. Here's the link to the article with the embedded videos: http://www.educationdive.com/news/5-professors-on-youtube-who-nailed-teaching/181504/
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4. SHELLY KAGAN
Yale University
Shelly Kagan specializes in moral philosophy and some of his most popular YouTube videos are lectures from a course titled simply "Death." His book of the same name was adapted into an essay that explored the question "Why is death bad?" Other lectures in the class cover the topics of suicide and the fear of death.
I like how he sits very casually on his desk, like he is on the same level as his students. I like how he recaps from what they had discussed from the previous class, so they can pickup where they left off. I think I would adapt his strategy by getting the class more involved. I realize that he is lecturing to college students, but as a future elementary school teacher I would need to adapt to my students. I would need to make this lecture much shorter, include visuals, group work and videos. I like that he did not sit down the whole time, he drew pictures on the board. I also appreciated his energy, it was a long lecture but he kept me interested. Plus the topic was intriguing. The only negative was that it was almost an hour long of him just talking, which is a long time to keep anyone's attention.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
BLOG 4
Read the article "Rethinking Teacher Roles in a New Networked World." In this article author-educator Marc Prensky's newest buzzword is "futurecation," which he says involves preparing students to do things "we could never do before." He believed that rather than continuing with a content focus—math, English, science, and social studies (or "MESS" as he calls it)—he said, "I think we need a new core: effective thinking, effective action, effective relationships, and effective accomplishment. Thinking, acting, relating, and accomplishing ought to be what primary and secondary school is about." Do you agree or disagree with his approach? How do you feel this approach would affect the way you teach now or will affect the way you teach in the future?
I believe that teachers should still be content focused but also add the new core. I cannot say that one way is more successful than the other, I would need more information on the new core. However, I believe that there should not be just one way of teaching, we always have to learn and change things about our teaching. I think that it would cause my future teaching to be less stressful since its not content focused. I also believe that it could help students since its requires thinking than focusing on various topics.
I believe that teachers should still be content focused but also add the new core. I cannot say that one way is more successful than the other, I would need more information on the new core. However, I believe that there should not be just one way of teaching, we always have to learn and change things about our teaching. I think that it would cause my future teaching to be less stressful since its not content focused. I also believe that it could help students since its requires thinking than focusing on various topics.
blog 1!
TeacherCast.net is a growing dynamic Educational Media Network offering great opportunities for educators, app developers and businesses to work together to improve the quality of education for our students.
TeacherCast offers educators several great avenues for professional development:
- The TeacherCast Podcasting Network
- The TeacherCast Educational Newspaper/Magazine
- The TeacherCast Professional App
- A Career Center to search and post jobs
- TeacherCast University
- TeacherCast TV
Their mission is to create an environment for educators to have access to resources for Professional Development. You can find the site at:http://www.teachercast.net/ Explore some of the content listed above on the TeacherCast website. Which features would you use and how would you use them for your professional development?
I would use the TeacherCast University, I like how it offers online courses. I would definitely use this website for professional development to find helpful google apps, learn how to create apps, remind my students of important things via text, use video editing, creating safe blogs and screen effects. These are all important things and I like how it shows upcoming topics that will be added to the website. As teachers we need to constantly update our teaching strategies and we need to stay connected. Therefore, I like how we can correspond with one another through posts. I also appreciate how the site offers a career center to search and post jobs. I am graduating in May so I will definitely use that to obtain a job. I can also share this site with my friends who may need to find a job as well.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Blog 2!
Some public schools (by design) foster passive learners, discourage productivity, and fail to teach self-discipline. The culture of “school” works against what research shows to be in the best interest of next generation learners. Access the article at: http://plpnetwork.com/2015/03/10/shift-active-learning-technology-answer/ After reading the article are you convinced that things have to change? Do you think we are shifting to an educational culture of active learning? Explain why or why not and what you think has to happen to achieve this goal.
After reading this article I agree that things need to change. Teachers should be more focused on working on their students deeper thinking skills as opposed to focusing so much on the use of technology. I think that there should be a balance of teaching with and without technology. Technology should be used as a reinforcement to what was already taught and perhaps furthering that knowledge through research. I do think that we are shifting to an educational culture of active learning because I have already completed my observations (in 2 different schools) and my pre-student teaching (at 2 different schools). I have noticed teachers using many technologies such as ipads and laptops for their active learning tools. The author defined active learning in two ways: one using technology and the other as doing experiments and observing things. Teachers have used both ways, with technology and without (science experiments and observing items). I think that it is important for teachers to use both types of active learning. We can achieve this goal by creating workshops for teachers to attend to define both types of active learning and how its important to implement both.
After reading this article I agree that things need to change. Teachers should be more focused on working on their students deeper thinking skills as opposed to focusing so much on the use of technology. I think that there should be a balance of teaching with and without technology. Technology should be used as a reinforcement to what was already taught and perhaps furthering that knowledge through research. I do think that we are shifting to an educational culture of active learning because I have already completed my observations (in 2 different schools) and my pre-student teaching (at 2 different schools). I have noticed teachers using many technologies such as ipads and laptops for their active learning tools. The author defined active learning in two ways: one using technology and the other as doing experiments and observing things. Teachers have used both ways, with technology and without (science experiments and observing items). I think that it is important for teachers to use both types of active learning. We can achieve this goal by creating workshops for teachers to attend to define both types of active learning and how its important to implement both.
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