Blog #3

The standards I feel most comfortable teaching my students would be the audio and visual part of the standards (CTE-AATC.68.AV.01.01). I know how to do most audio and video effects. Kids could make projects using simple video tools and audio edits, especially kids in middle and high school. It would give the kids an opportunity to express creativity. The standard I feel least educated to teach would be to apply cost skills of how much the technology would cost (CTE-AATC.68.GENRL.04.04). I think the CPALMS tool kit is a very effective way of teaching kids. I would use the lesson plans available to any of the subjects. It allows the teacher to get certain situations and have the kids use it for application and understanding. It is a good idea to use when you want to start out with a base idea and use other ideas to branch off of it into a full lesson. For example, for an english study they have a lesson activity called "David's Big Problem" and it teaches kids how to be respectful while also learning english tools. The newsletter design was a little difficult for me. I have had experience on word but only on writing papers and not doing the creative part of it. I am glad we had this assignment, because now I know how to add fun things like pictures and borders. If I could redo it, I would problem focus more on the criteria as opposed to making it look pretty. I think there are better, or more simple, options than using word to make newsletters. For example, I have used Canva to make graphics and they have many different templates to chose from. This can benefit me in becoming a teacher since I will have to be making newsletters for my students.

My Newsletter!

Independent Learn Project #1

Me at the showcase!

1. For my learning experience, I went to the FSU school of education technology showcase. Here they had many displays of technology that can be implemented into classrooms. They had it laid our for students to come and personally interact with it. For example, they have VR (virtual reality) headset that could be used for kids to gain a better understand of a certain historical period or event. Technology like the virtual reality headset is something that can be put into a classroom and give the kids a more visual representation of the learning process.                                                                                                                                                                  More things they had available at the showcase were items such as 3D pens. One thing I really enjoyed during the showcase was the many different apps and extensions they had for iPads. Some schools get iPads for their classroom or even have each child get an iPad. Since they are easily available, the idea of apps and extensions for them is groundbreaking. You can do so much with it in the class and get cheap games that all students can play.    
2. Notes taken during: - There is a 3D pen station. It allows drawings to be brought to life. This could be used for engineering students to model what design they would want to make and create before they actually build it.                                                                                                                                  - There was a glowing white-board type product. This was a clear board so all sides of the classroom can see it and create a more ready to learn type of environment.                                          - There was many different iPad games, for example one was helping with foreign language and it make it easier and more user friendly. 

Blog #2

In high school, most of our writing assignments would have to print out and let our peers write on it and review it. This would be used for grading purposes so it would need to be done pretty often. Since most of the Microsoft word documents would be done for English class, I got a good grip on how to format papers in writing styles such as APA. My teachers would use it less often than students, but they would use it for printing out handouts and assignments.

Copyright was implemented in my school. Teachers would enforce how important it was not to copyright. As a teacher, I would make sure to teach and enforce to my kids how to properly site photos and material. This is an important standard to teach kids. I would try and do an interactive activity with kids so they understood how to cite things.

Academic Honesty: Make sure to enforce to my students that I will be there to help them with their own work if they do not feel confident about it.
Privacy: I would make sure to have folders surrounding the students desk during testing time.
Cyber bullying: Make interactive activities with kids to understand the events that follow.




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Blog #1

In most recent years, technology has been incorporated into the classroom. What influences teachers to use technology in the classroom is how accessible it is to students. It creates an automatic relationship with the teacher and students. If the teacher uses twitter it is easy to get kids attention with a social media site. Even something as simple as canvas for students at FSU is a technology tool that is easy for the teachers as well as the students. What influences students to use technology is their familiarity with it. Students have most likely grown up around technology and are pretty much adapted to it. It makes doing and presenting assignments much easier.

There are 7 different ISTE standards in which teachers/students should use. There is the empowered learner, the digital citizen, the knowledge constructor, the innovative designer, the computational thinker, the creative communicator, and the global collaborator. One standard that is meaningful to me the standard #6, the creative communicator. This standard is the most creative to me and allows kids to be creative through technology. This is important because most classes focus on the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math). Although technology is apart of that, it is rarely used to be creative, that is why standard #6 is so important to me. Standard #5, the computational thinker, is the idea that is most out of my comfort zone. Using technology to solve a major problem is not something that is on my side, so it would be difficult for me to be able to demonstrate and live out this standard. 

I do not agree with the label "digital native." A digital native is someone who grew up in the generation of technology. There are many different classifications to be a true digital native, some more true than others. For example, a digital native has lower attention spans, can only work where media is present (cannot use older ays to learn), and does not prefer to read and instead would rather play on phones. I do think that technology has its negatives as well as its positives, but I think that my generation has more access to creative and learning ability than older generations did. Using a paper and pencil to take test, or simply learning through a lecture and a white board, is something that is easily doable and will not take away from the learning factor. This idea that the "digital natives" cannot focus or learn without technology is not true. Technology just makes learning and connecting easier. Of course, when I become a teacher there might be new technology that comes out that I am unaware of. Knowing what your kids you teach are learning with and engaged in is very important because it puts you on the same level as them and takes away that "gap" brought on by society.