1.What we should know:
2. How do we evaluate?
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Constructivist Perspective
The most important thing I learned tonight was about a constructivist perspective of teaching and learning. It focuses on how to make students engage in meaningful experiences, how to help students think in real life by using the knowledge they have already learned.
Online Resources for Lesson Planning
Online Resources for Lesson Planning
Based on the readings this week, I think the most useful information I receive is no more than online resources for leason planning. I tried all these three websites. Very interesting!
Among those three websites, I like Verizon Thinkfinity(http://www.thinkfinity.org) the most. It provides an access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core.So do not hesitate it, just try!try!try!
I wanted to find some information about living things on earth because one of my assignment in science class was about designing a lesson plan about 1st grade science. Then I went to Thinkfinity's website, typed in key words- living things, selected 1st grade and the subject of science.Then I chose a resouce named "The Creature Feature Archive " and entered into it. It's so amazing! It appead a lot of animals' pictures. I clicked on "Belugas", then I entered into the page full of "Facts&Photos", "Vedio&Sound","Map"and "E-Card". It provided four kinds of resources, which means, I can inroduce the white whale in four different ways. I love it!
Questions:
1. In what way do you think is appropriate to assess 1st grade students about science?
2. Do you think someday educational technology can instead of teaching face-to -face?
3. Do you think teachers will just be decisions makers someday that they only need to select what kind of information they can use in class?
Based on the readings this week, I think the most useful information I receive is no more than online resources for leason planning. I tried all these three websites. Very interesting!
Among those three websites, I like Verizon Thinkfinity(http://www.thinkfinity.org) the most. It provides an access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core.So do not hesitate it, just try!try!try!
I wanted to find some information about living things on earth because one of my assignment in science class was about designing a lesson plan about 1st grade science. Then I went to Thinkfinity's website, typed in key words- living things, selected 1st grade and the subject of science.Then I chose a resouce named "The Creature Feature Archive " and entered into it. It's so amazing! It appead a lot of animals' pictures. I clicked on "Belugas", then I entered into the page full of "Facts&Photos", "Vedio&Sound","Map"and "E-Card". It provided four kinds of resources, which means, I can inroduce the white whale in four different ways. I love it!
Questions:
1. In what way do you think is appropriate to assess 1st grade students about science?
2. Do you think someday educational technology can instead of teaching face-to -face?
3. Do you think teachers will just be decisions makers someday that they only need to select what kind of information they can use in class?
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Roles' Change for Teachers and Students in Technology-Connected Classrooms
After reading chapter two, I feel very excited about changes that technology can make in the classroom. With the help of technology, students can learn with visual aid, access and assess information by themselves, engage and collaborate though groupwork, get feedback in time, and express creativity in an electronic way. I'm so excited to find that students can do sooo many things at the same time just in one environment. Teachers are not the center of the classroom any more; instead, they become mangagers or organizers of individual and group learning experiences.Students need no longer be passive recipients of curriculum; they can be active researchers, annalyzers, and presenters of ideas and informations. They became the classroom center.
To motivate learning, teachers consistantly strive to gain the "outter" and "inner" attention of students. Most of time,however, educators focus on the outer attention (for example, requiring students to remain quietly in their seats throughout class or copy notes and assignments fro, the board ) while neglecting the inner attention (helping students to think deeply about the topics under discussion.) But inner attention is where learning happens. So my dream is someday I can help Chinese students to fulfill "discovery learning", "learning by doing", "inquiry-based learning", and "hands-on learning".
To motivate learning, teachers consistantly strive to gain the "outter" and "inner" attention of students. Most of time,however, educators focus on the outer attention (for example, requiring students to remain quietly in their seats throughout class or copy notes and assignments fro, the board ) while neglecting the inner attention (helping students to think deeply about the topics under discussion.) But inner attention is where learning happens. So my dream is someday I can help Chinese students to fulfill "discovery learning", "learning by doing", "inquiry-based learning", and "hands-on learning".
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