Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Journal 2
Museums in the Classroom
Reissman, Rose. (February 2009). “Museums in the Classroom”. Learning and Leading with Technology, Vol 36, Issue 5, Retrieved February 20, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200902/
"Museums in the Classroom" is an interactive article that allows the reader to take a virtual field trip to different museums across the country. The article also suggested web sites that could help the student design their own cyber museum. The article also had a link to a site that could help inexperienced teachers to use museums as a tool in their classroom.
How can a teacher use online museums as a resource in the classroom?
Online museums are great to go along with certain lessons that have primary resources that can be viewed right away. It's like taking a field trip without having to leave their class. Students can visit the natural history museum online, or a dinosaur exhibit or even a Holocaust museum and the teacher should integrate these things into the lesson.
Will using online museums help build a students skills using technology?
Using cyber museums would meet the NETS standards for students and could help students to become more comfortable navigating around a web site. Not only would the student be enhancing their web based skills, they would also be doing research on whatever topic they are visiting in the online museum.
Reissman, Rose. (February 2009). “Museums in the Classroom”. Learning and Leading with Technology, Vol 36, Issue 5, Retrieved February 20, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200902/
"Museums in the Classroom" is an interactive article that allows the reader to take a virtual field trip to different museums across the country. The article also suggested web sites that could help the student design their own cyber museum. The article also had a link to a site that could help inexperienced teachers to use museums as a tool in their classroom.
How can a teacher use online museums as a resource in the classroom?
Online museums are great to go along with certain lessons that have primary resources that can be viewed right away. It's like taking a field trip without having to leave their class. Students can visit the natural history museum online, or a dinosaur exhibit or even a Holocaust museum and the teacher should integrate these things into the lesson.
Will using online museums help build a students skills using technology?
Using cyber museums would meet the NETS standards for students and could help students to become more comfortable navigating around a web site. Not only would the student be enhancing their web based skills, they would also be doing research on whatever topic they are visiting in the online museum.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Social Bookmarking
Below are the eight websites I visited for this social bookmarking scavenger hunt.
- Dear Bess: Love Letters from the President is an online exhibit of love letters Harry and Bess Truman sent back and forth to each other. There were scanned, digital versions of the letters they wrote. Primary sources are important because they are originals. It's always important to use some kind of primary sources in research and your students should understand the importance of primary sources.
- The National Education Association website outlines how to become a culturally competent educator. Some of the things I believe I would do as an educator include: Assessing what the school staff perceive as their staff development needs related to providing services to each group. By doing this you can see where the rest of the staff believe the needs of the school are. Another thing I feel is important is networking. Networking with other schools, staff members, students and community organizations to get them culturally involved is also very important. And lastly I feel it's important to engage school staff in discussions and activities that offer an opportunity to explore attitudes, beliefs, and values related to cultural diversity and cultural competence.
- Through KidsClick.org I found a cute online story called A Fishy Tale. This is a story for young kids in kinder to second grade. Beginner readers. The site also has a few other beginner reader stories that will help develop kids reading.
- Kathy Schrock has some great ideas and resources for educators. Once I become a classroom teacher I will use her website as a tool to help me use rubrics and assements for grading my own students. The only thing that needs to be updated on the site is a lot of her links are no longer active.
- The George Lucas Foundation does a good job explaining what multiple intelligences are. In the "what" section of the site it nine different levels of intelligences that I never knew exsisted. It would be important to know about these things intelligences especially for teachers so that they will be able to understand peoples levels.
- The Teaching Tolerance website is a wonderful resouce for teachers to come up with specific lesson plas to help their students learn about diversity and tolerance. One lesson plan I really liked taught lower level students about acceptance and diversity using a box of crayons. The lesson is called What Can We Learn from a Box of Crayons? It had kids draw a picture using a single color and then using the whole box of crayons. The teacher then asks the students which picture they like better the picture with one color, or the colorful one. Then the teacher asks, "What a boring world it would be if we were all alike — like the picture drawn with only one crayon. The diversity in the world makes it like a wonderful box of crayons with endless colors." Next the teachers read The Crayon Box that Talked and asks their students questions such as "Wasn't it silly for the crayons not to like each other just because of their color? Each crayon had something special to offer to the picture — green for the grass, blue for the sky, yellow for the sun." I really liked this lesson because it teaches an important lesson "We could learn a lot from crayons. ... (They) all are different colors, but they all exist very nicely in the same box."
- EdChange.org has a few different multicultral quizzes. I looked over a few of the quizzes and I was shocked to learn that compared with White women, African American women in the U.S. are four times as likely to die during childbirth due to a lack of access to prenatal care. That, to me, is outragous. It was also an eye opener to find out that accordng to
UNICEF the treatment of children in the 23 wealthiest countries in the world based on 40 indicators of child well-being, the two countries with the lowest ratings were the US & UK. Also to read that over 84% of teachers will never or rarely respond to homophobic remarks according to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender high school students. - The web is a very popular tool these days that almost every child has access to. It's important to follow the Netiquette rules so that you won't be rude in cyberspace. I took the Netiquette quiz and I knew alot about the rules of the web before even reading about them. I scored 80%. =]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Journal 1
Passport to Digital Citizenship
Ribble, Mike (2008). Passport to Digital Citizenship. Learning and Leading in Technology, 37, Retrieved January 28, 2009, from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/L_L_November.htm
In summary, author Mike Ribble’s article on students becoming good technology citizens, he emphasizes the need for teachers, parents and the community to create, adopt and set into motion a universal language in which students can be taught responsible, legal and ethical behavior when utilizing global technology today and in the future.
Ribble and co-author Gerald Bailey, suggest the use and implementation of their nine elements of digital citizenship, ranging from access, to law, to security, health and wellness as a launching point for teaching. Also provided is a four stage technology learning framework for teaching digital citizenship to our children for a lifelong foundation in the digital universe.
Once the universal language is in place in our school system, how do we integrate parents and community into the learning, teaching and modeling process for a more seamless learning experience for the kids?
When the teachers have the groundwork and process integrated into their curriculum and feel confident in their own aptitude, a once a month meeting with parents and community librarians should be hosted by the school district. The first in a series of meetings is to introduce the concept and need for cohesive modeling both at school, home and in our libraries. The need for community libraries to be involved is critical for those students that doo not have access in their homes. This series of meetings should be at a minimum of six meetings, with an emphasis on acceptable digital behavior away from the classroom. Modeling by parents is critical.
How do we measure the success of the digital citizenship program?
Without monitoring and measurement, even the best processes may fail. It is a good idea to set goals to measure the success of the program. From the initial parent community meeting, a syllabus should be provided with areas for suggestions of what worked and what doesn’t. Tweaking the process at six months and one year, based on student and parent suggestions may improve the outcome. A quiz should be implemented for students and parents at the end of the course to measure it’s success.
Ribble, Mike (2008). Passport to Digital Citizenship. Learning and Leading in Technology, 37, Retrieved January 28, 2009, from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/L_L_November.htm
In summary, author Mike Ribble’s article on students becoming good technology citizens, he emphasizes the need for teachers, parents and the community to create, adopt and set into motion a universal language in which students can be taught responsible, legal and ethical behavior when utilizing global technology today and in the future.
Ribble and co-author Gerald Bailey, suggest the use and implementation of their nine elements of digital citizenship, ranging from access, to law, to security, health and wellness as a launching point for teaching. Also provided is a four stage technology learning framework for teaching digital citizenship to our children for a lifelong foundation in the digital universe.
Once the universal language is in place in our school system, how do we integrate parents and community into the learning, teaching and modeling process for a more seamless learning experience for the kids?
When the teachers have the groundwork and process integrated into their curriculum and feel confident in their own aptitude, a once a month meeting with parents and community librarians should be hosted by the school district. The first in a series of meetings is to introduce the concept and need for cohesive modeling both at school, home and in our libraries. The need for community libraries to be involved is critical for those students that doo not have access in their homes. This series of meetings should be at a minimum of six meetings, with an emphasis on acceptable digital behavior away from the classroom. Modeling by parents is critical.
How do we measure the success of the digital citizenship program?
Without monitoring and measurement, even the best processes may fail. It is a good idea to set goals to measure the success of the program. From the initial parent community meeting, a syllabus should be provided with areas for suggestions of what worked and what doesn’t. Tweaking the process at six months and one year, based on student and parent suggestions may improve the outcome. A quiz should be implemented for students and parents at the end of the course to measure it’s success.
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