Digital Badge J ch.4

           Lesson Plans are very important in a classroom. It gives guidelines and directions for each activity of the day. Planning allows your classroom to have a flow feeling. Without a plan students will move through the activities without sense of purpose. They will become distracted as you are thinking how to organize that lesson. Enhancing lesson plans with technology is very engaging to students. There are three elements  related to a good lesson plan they are academic content, teaching goals, learning assessment.



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       The academic content are facts, concept, ideas, and skills used in your lesson. It is under the branch that said what to teach. Under each state there are assigned standards about the lesson they need to follow. There is a curriculum that needs to be followed. The teacher decides how he/she wants to teach it. Technology is a great way to teach with. You can use videos, pictures, charts, databases, and wiki all of the sources will enhance the students knowledge about the lesson.
         Also, when preparing a lesson plan you need to know how to teach. Using teaching goals methods and procedures. A goal is use because it gives you a reason to see how far you need to teach in that lesson. You can combine goals by daily learning. Technology helps by using visual thinking software, presentation software, web based diagrams. I think using these tools due benefit kids. I see it at the school I work at when a teacher combines it in her lesson plans how students engage more. Their understanding increases as well. Using sources such as websites, podcast, software, and cameras.
       Lastly, when creating a lesson plan your next element is knowing what the students have learned. This is done by assessments. Some assessments can be done before, middle or the end of a lesson. This measures the students knowledge, understanding, and performance. Some technologies that can be used to assess kids are electronic quizzes and test, grade keeping, student response system. The student response system can be done by older kids. It will show you what they have learned and if they are confused its very helpful for a teacher.
        Using lesson plans in a classroom is very important. Without one you will be lost and so will your students. Using technology enhances it and engages the students in a daily basis.


Reference:
Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

Digital Badge I CH.12

         In this chapter I read about integrating technology and creating challenges as a teacher in the classroom. There are different strategies and issues to that teacher are having with integrating technology in their classroom. It requires having patience, perseverance, and the willingness to involve the classroom with this new technology.
     In schools technology tend to follow to patterns called inclusion or infusion. Inclusion is when technology is being used mainly to for transferring information and practice skills in the class. This is only used like 30 minute each week within a group assignment. The everyday teaching is just done by the teacher herself. Infusion is when computers and technologies are ongoing features in academic learning. They are used day to day with each student interacting with the teacher lessons. Examples used to teach kids with technology will be videos, puzzles, game based learning.

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There is a difference in the classroom when the teacher is using the infusion way because students can relate to it and makes it even fun for them to learn. But yes you do need to have lots of patience with technology in the classroom especially if your not use to working with it. Always have  a positive attitude in the classroom even if you are struggling with it.

 

 

 

 

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                                                                                                                                                                         reference:

Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Badge H ch.9

     Multimedia is a presentation of materials used with picture and words. Teachers use multimedia in a classroom everyday by text, data, voice, picture and video.
These are several ways we can use multimedia through
 -charts,
 -PowerPoint
 - video.

    During a lesson you always want to engage your students in the topic you are learning. An example would be if your teaching them about the water cycle you can put a chart up in the projector and let them see step by step on what you are teaching. This engages them because there are seeing and focusing on what you are showing. After, they looked at the chart you can give them a paper to draw the cycle themselves this helps them go over the lesson again and remember it. So you used this media source of a chart on the projector as an advantage to them in the learning process.
   
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      Showing PowerPoint can be interesting to students instead of just reading straight from the book. It provides short summarizes of the chapter. Gives the visual learners a way to learn by looking at what you are teaching. It is more accessible to parents and teachers for studying. In the PowerPoint you can in cooperate  videos, pictures, and charts so it can be more helpful to their understanding. The way you set up the PowerPoint it important to because you need to make it eye catchy to the grade level. So if its kindergarten you might want to add more pictures and videos describe  what you are teaching and make it colorful.
      Being in a classroom I do see how using videos does engage students in the topic you are teaching. In the school I teach at we use a website called brainpop. You can search any topic and it will give you a short video on it. This website is educational and the kids love it because they think the robot is funny. An example I just used this website this week I was with first grade and we were going to start talking about Christopher  Columbus so I out this video on first so the students can get a background on what we will be talking about. After, they saw it we did an assignment on it.
       Using multimedia in a classroom is very important in the 21st century. It does increase the percentage of the students engaging in your class.








References:
Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

Digital Badge G ch. 10

     In this chapter I learned about multicultural education and how there are different ways to be diverse in a multicultural way. Multicultural education is how teachers go about affirming the expansive diversity of student interests, needs, and talent present in every school classrooms. This basically means that every student no matter gender, social class, racial, and cultural differences still get the same education in the classroom. Now in the 21st century there are different ways to support multicultural teaching and learning.
     One way is by revealing hidden histories and untold stories. This allow teachers to use examples od role models and cooperate it in all subject areas. Diverse students are more interested when they see examples of what the teacher is talking about. An example, would be if a teacher is teaching social studies then he/she will look for a person who can relate to these diverse students. This can be done by using interactive websites, online videos, and web based sources. These sources make the student more interested in what they are learning about because they can relate to the topic. This example also goes with teacher using the multicultural teaching by connecting school assignments with the issues and concerns they are going with in there own lives. I am one of these students that will do better using this method of teaching because I like to relate my school work with my own life out of school it help me remember it more.

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     Expanding teaching methods and approaches is another way to use multicultural methods in the classroom. Using small groups or centers make students get to know one another and break out of there shell. Since there is smaller students they are interacting with they wont be so shy. This also increases their social skills by working together. The diverse student who doesn't speak the language or is in a different situation can open up more when the class is working in small centers.  Another way to expand diverse students in the classroom is to explore with technology when its Hispanic heritage. black history and the other heritages tell students to look up information do different projects with them to explore and make the diverse student more comfortable.
     In the 21st century with many diverse students in different parts of the world teachers have to use technology to make students more comfortable in the classroom. And make it easier by relating examples and projects that can help the understand.


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references
Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.