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Sunday, October 12, 2014
Blog post 8
This video was probably the best video on teaching and life in general I have ever seen. In the video Randy Pausch talks about reaching his goals, helping others reach their goals, and his lessons learned. At the being of the lecture he explains his health issues and how he only has months of good health left in his life. The original name to his lecture was "The Last Lecture". As bad as his situation was he still was very positive in all he did. He talks about brick walls in life and how they are just there to filter out the people who don't want it as bad. One of the quotes he used was "experience is what you get when you did get what you wanted." This stood out to me as a student and a future teacher because you can never stop learning no matter where you are in your life or career. Pausch also talked about when he played football and how ways he learned to play the game such as practicing without a ball thought him life lessons not just football. One successful teaching method he talks about is "head fake learning." Head fake learning is a way of learning skills that are sometimes difficult to grasp by using something that is more interesting and sometimes even fun. This approach has been mostly the way I've learned such as playing sports and working. I've learned a lot about learning and ways to learn and always ways to teach and help children I teach achieve their dreams and goals.
Here is his story Randy's Story
Sources: freerangepower.com http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/index.shtml
Here is his story Randy's Story
Sources: freerangepower.com http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/index.shtml
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Blog post 3
For Blog post 3 we were asked to learn about peer review by watching 2 videos and a slideshow. The video gives us the definition of what peer review is and the step to have a successful peer review. The definition of peer review is having someone your age review and make revisions with you. It also gives us the 3 steps to peer editing. Step one is compliment, you should start your peer review with the good parts of their writing. Suggestions is the second step to peer editing done by giving them ideas on how to make their work better. The final step is corrections by checking for the mistakes such as grammar or spelling.
The slide show was pretty much the same as the video. It gave more detail into the 3 steps of peer editing and how to do it positively. Gives some idea on what thing to compliment while reviewing. Also it gives details on things to suggest such as word choice and topics. Finally it explains what to look for while your making corrections. The final video was a funny video of a class doing skits showing the children acting out the different forms or peer editors. They showed us so or the different characters you get while peer editing such as the too picky ones like Picky Patty. Overall in this activity I learn what peer review and editing was and how you can achieve greatness by doing it the right way.This is Picky Patty
Source pattonamandaedm310.blogspot.com
Here's the video
The slide show was pretty much the same as the video. It gave more detail into the 3 steps of peer editing and how to do it positively. Gives some idea on what thing to compliment while reviewing. Also it gives details on things to suggest such as word choice and topics. Finally it explains what to look for while your making corrections. The final video was a funny video of a class doing skits showing the children acting out the different forms or peer editors. They showed us so or the different characters you get while peer editing such as the too picky ones like Picky Patty. Overall in this activity I learn what peer review and editing was and how you can achieve greatness by doing it the right way.This is Picky Patty
Source pattonamandaedm310.blogspot.com
Here's the video
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Blog post 2
1. In the first video I believe the central message is that the way classes are taught should vary in what the class is. In this video the teacher is trying to teach students how to dance but is just using still pictures and not actually showing them how to do the dances so when they have to actually do them they are not prepared. The author makes his case for this by showing how the students didn't know any of the dances for the final. I agree with this conclusion because as with anything in life practice makes perfect and if you just sit back and take notes and not learn how to do what you are trying to learn it will be much harder.
2. In the second video Roberts is making an argument that the way students are being taught are changing into a more technological form. He explains how we can get facts anywhere at anytime though things such as Google or Wikipedia. As a teacher he believes that students should be taught in a more skill-based curriculum rather than the facts and information based curriculum that is the norm in teaching today. This will change everything about how future teacher myself included will be teaching. As teacher we will have to learn some of these skills ourselves.
3. The networked student really opened my eyes to how much social medias can enhance the class room. It implies how in the 21st century teachers should be more of a guide and mentor than just a person who stands in front of the class and tell them what to study and what to do. I am really interested in this form of teaching because it lets the student become move involved and actually use things they are interested in to learn the things they need to know.
4. Davis's teaching method seems to be more of what teaching in the 21st century will be. She believes that having her students work collaboratively with others to solve problems, do projects and connect socially will help their overall learning experience. I think this form of teaching is a very positive step in education because it not only teaches students the facts and information they need to learn but also the skills such as working with others, finding information when it is not handed to them and also how to get information they learn out to others. This style of teaching teaches the student to not just be taught by someone but to also teach themselves.
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2. In the second video Roberts is making an argument that the way students are being taught are changing into a more technological form. He explains how we can get facts anywhere at anytime though things such as Google or Wikipedia. As a teacher he believes that students should be taught in a more skill-based curriculum rather than the facts and information based curriculum that is the norm in teaching today. This will change everything about how future teacher myself included will be teaching. As teacher we will have to learn some of these skills ourselves.
3. The networked student really opened my eyes to how much social medias can enhance the class room. It implies how in the 21st century teachers should be more of a guide and mentor than just a person who stands in front of the class and tell them what to study and what to do. I am really interested in this form of teaching because it lets the student become move involved and actually use things they are interested in to learn the things they need to know.
4. Davis's teaching method seems to be more of what teaching in the 21st century will be. She believes that having her students work collaboratively with others to solve problems, do projects and connect socially will help their overall learning experience. I think this form of teaching is a very positive step in education because it not only teaches students the facts and information they need to learn but also the skills such as working with others, finding information when it is not handed to them and also how to get information they learn out to others. This style of teaching teaches the student to not just be taught by someone but to also teach themselves.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
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