So far my thoughts on how I deliver my content in my classroom in regards to transliteracy has changed. But honestly that’s just my thoughts. My thoughts over the summer have been very overwhelmed because I do think and believe that students should be able to read, write and interact across different platforms using technology, but the idea of how I am going to do that has been overwhelming. There are so many things that I want to try that I feel that I don’t know how to begin or how to introduce them. I know that we have been exposed to different tools but maybe on how to integrate them in an appropriate manner has been a little unclear. At least to me though. I have begun though to have students watch videos at home or outside the classroom of the Math content that we are covering in class. They are to take Cornell Note style notes as they watch the videos. My goal is to have students use these notes while they are working on their own at home and in the classroom to help each other out with assignments and projects. Little things like these are activities that I hope I get to have students create on their own later in the school year. It seems that students already know how to work through certain google applications but I hope to have them use other tools that aren’t always used in their other classrooms. That will hopefully open up their options of digital tools that are out there that they may use. I think that we teachers have to be able to appropriately introduce digital tools into the classroom. As I Have mentioned before I sometimes feel overwhelmed at all the tools that we have looked at in class and if I have felt like that I can only imagine how my students will feel if I try to do more then what they can handle. I think that if lessons are scaffolded while taking into consideration our population of students then our students will be better off in learning on how to use the digital tools we ask them to use.
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Jeff Albertazzi
9/10/2018 09:53:08 pm
It struck a chord with me when you said "There are so many things that I want to try that I feel that I don’t know how to begin or how to introduce them." Seems like when we do figure them out its onto to the next thing. I think giving them time to play around and using
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Kristina
9/13/2018 03:05:22 pm
Using the tools we have learned in this program has involved a lot of consideration of what my students can handle. While I think all the tools we've learned are useful, I think they are more useful for me to use to create content for my students, but not so much for my students to use those tools. Whenever I consider what tools I will have my students use, I always ask myself what I want them to get from using that tool. That's kind of been the way I've been deciding whether to have the students use those tools. Kendra had wrote something in her blog about the students having to master the first "surface" tools before they can continue on and I think that's something so important to consider. While we want to show them all these tools, we have to make sure they can master the tools they already have. In your case, Google products. Do they have them mastered? Is there more use they can get out of it?
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