Internet Assignment
Anne Prochnow
Instructional Tech. 525, Tues. class
Discipline Resources for Teachers
Classroom Management
http://www.theteachersguide.com/ClassManagement,htm
Teachers Workshop
http://www.teachersworkshop.com/twshop/relationaldisc.html.
Positive Discipline
http://www.positivedisciplne.com
Resource Sites for Students
Wilkipedia Encyclopedia
http://www.wilkipedia.com
Purple Math
http://purplemath.com
Homework Assistance Sites
Student Homework Site
http://www.rusd.k12.ca.us/students/default.htm
Homework Help
http://www.kcls.org/hh/homework.cfm
Lesson Plan Sites
PBS Teacher Resources for Classroom
http://www.pbs.org/teachers
A to Z Teacher Stuff
http://atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_earlychildhood
Standards Sites
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
http://dpi.state.wi.us/
Head Start Standards
http://headstartinfo.org/publications/perf-stds/update.htm
Resource Sites for Families of Students
Office of Child Care and Family
http://www.wis.edu/occfc/
Early Intervention Program
http://www.weecare.wisearch.com
Enrichment Sites
For Gifted
http://home.pacific.net.au/-greg.hub/for_gifted.html
Enrichment Activities
http://step.syr.edu/enrichment.php
Mathematics and Science Enrichment Activities
http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmse/ostdenr.html
Search Engine Sites
Dr. Alice Christies Search Engine
http://www.west.asu.edu/christie/sengines.html
TekMom Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search/index.html
Students Cheating Sites
Cheat 1
http://www.kalana.com/_zimba/plag&cheat.htn
Libraries Unlimited
http://www.lu.com/showbook.cfm?ibsn=9781563088414
Professional Association Sites
WECANAEYC-Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
http://www.wecanaeyc.org
NAEYC- National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://naeyc.org/eca
The Registry of Wisconsin Early Childhood Professionals
http://www.the_registry.org
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Final Blog
Well, here we are at the end of the semester and I'm not a picture friendly person, but here is my picture for everyone to see. I hope it doesn't scare anyone. As we end this technology class, there are a few things that I have learned, but many things that I am confused on. Technology can be a great thing, but whoever designed some of the programs we used, certainly was not thinking of the computer illiterate person like myself. I think if it was put in simpler form I would be a computer genius. I also think that all computer companies should agree on one simple concept for a program and make it standard to all makes and models. No wonder Bill Gates is rich. Now that I've said my peace. So long to all!
Anne P.
Anne P.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Quaility Teachers
As a teacher, we always want to do the best for our students. The is always room for improvement. The question is how do we improve ourselves? In the article "Quallity Teaching: From Theory to Practice. The Question Mark: Vol. 1/No. 2/September, 2004," it gives steps for improving our teacher performance. The article first states that teaching is a lifetime journey of exploration, practice, and discovery. Teachers need to incorporate art, science, craft, and alchemy to create and effective pedagogy of learning in the classroom. The use of these four aspects is not found in any textbook, but is developed by the teacher as she explores her classroom and darts, weaves, and charms the students. Teachers must also remember that what worked one year, will work again the next year. Quality teaching involves using your magic and understanding each student's learning styles to provide the highest level learning for them to succeed.
As a teacher we make this happen by providing conditions in the classroom that help students learn. Students most learn when they feel curious, are understood, are intrigued, are supported, challenged, comfortable and recognizable as an individual. Unfortunately a teacher will have students that are not at their best learning because of what happens outside the classroom. As a teacher we need to support the student the best we can in the situatuion they are in and sometimes take the time to provide extra support to help them achieve their learning potential.
Teachers often as a willingness to be quality teachers research best practices reports for better learning. This is a great, but often we try to combine ideas from many articles and often leads to a frustrating challenge on the classroom. Sometimes the solutions offerred are highly exaggerated, and cost lots of money. The article suggests we research the finding further in the article before putting them into practice.
Teaching is a discovery process. It is a trial and error situation on a daily basis. Ideas may work for a while in your classroom, but things evolve and change and you need to do the same. To keep yourself on track in the classroom the article suggests these twelve things.
1. Increase you magic, 2. Understand the young ones, 3. Look for good routines,4. Avoid heroics, 5. Take breaks-coast-rest-pace yourself, 6. Ask for help-for ideas-class tricks, 7. Question, 8. Add one strategy each week, 9. Focus, 10. Project like a champion-have faith, 11. Lose weight-shed the nensense, 12. Eat well-Feed yourself on good ideas.
Finally, as a teacher, not everyday is going to be perfect, there are going to be bad days. Those are the days we reflect on and say okay today didn't go well, what can I do to change what happened, and then put it out of your mind and focus on the next day. Dwelling on the bad will burn you out as a quality teacher. BE POSITIVE!
Anne P.
As a teacher we make this happen by providing conditions in the classroom that help students learn. Students most learn when they feel curious, are understood, are intrigued, are supported, challenged, comfortable and recognizable as an individual. Unfortunately a teacher will have students that are not at their best learning because of what happens outside the classroom. As a teacher we need to support the student the best we can in the situatuion they are in and sometimes take the time to provide extra support to help them achieve their learning potential.
Teachers often as a willingness to be quality teachers research best practices reports for better learning. This is a great, but often we try to combine ideas from many articles and often leads to a frustrating challenge on the classroom. Sometimes the solutions offerred are highly exaggerated, and cost lots of money. The article suggests we research the finding further in the article before putting them into practice.
Teaching is a discovery process. It is a trial and error situation on a daily basis. Ideas may work for a while in your classroom, but things evolve and change and you need to do the same. To keep yourself on track in the classroom the article suggests these twelve things.
1. Increase you magic, 2. Understand the young ones, 3. Look for good routines,4. Avoid heroics, 5. Take breaks-coast-rest-pace yourself, 6. Ask for help-for ideas-class tricks, 7. Question, 8. Add one strategy each week, 9. Focus, 10. Project like a champion-have faith, 11. Lose weight-shed the nensense, 12. Eat well-Feed yourself on good ideas.
Finally, as a teacher, not everyday is going to be perfect, there are going to be bad days. Those are the days we reflect on and say okay today didn't go well, what can I do to change what happened, and then put it out of your mind and focus on the next day. Dwelling on the bad will burn you out as a quality teacher. BE POSITIVE!
Anne P.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Deep Thinking and Deep Reading
The Educational Journal of Technology wrote an article entitled "Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz, and Info-Glimmer" Its author Elegies Guttenberg Birkets, states that with the vast information available on the internet in schools, students and teachers need to really examine closely what is fact or fiction.
To achieve the truth regquires deep reading and deep thinking. They are dule processors which inform such a search and lead us toward insight and illumination. He describes the web as a "pot luck supper" where we all want to feast but even though everything looks good its not. Good teachers need to help children make the right choices from the supper. This may take several hours of navigation and "gorging" will occur, but with time students will make the correct choices on their own.
Deep reading which begins with quality stories being read tor inspire deep thought in children carries on to the internet by having children being able to make contact with the text or may be a reflection aimed at resolving some unanswered question or dllemma. Its using essential questions to find the answer. Deep reading in the past meant reading lots of material and collecting. Now with the help of teachers, students can use search engines that are constant flowing source of information that is available at the touch of a button.
The information necessary to students can be obtained through the following categories.
ZINES or magazine sites such as NETSURFDIGEST and http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html are great sites.
The ListServ on a Special Interes serves as source by setting up a flow of messages on a particular topic interest. The sites such as Deja News and Listz are useful sites.
The customized E-Mail News Digest such as the New York Times allow you to request periodic digest or topics of interest. The set back with these sources is that you have to subscribe or pay a fee to use their information.
The Customized Info-Rich Screen Saver includes products like Pointcast to deliver headline news and updates to desktops as they happen. There is a constant stream which is free and customizable.
The Intelligent Vigilant Search Engine is available through IBM with a subscription and a monthly fee. It sends you two news deliveries a day on business news.
Now that we have great resources to start our knowledge quest we need to take our deep thinking process and put it to work. We need to read our way into deep thinking. This is done when we collect all our dat and start to sort, sift, select, ingest and then diget the most important parcels and morsels. We look for patterns, and conections taking out of the iformation what is relevant to our subjects and using prior knowledge to build onto new perceptions. Many of us use a process of incubaton where we are looking for information on a new idea and we keep churning in our minds all the material we gathered and suddenly we have an unconscious AHA that say I know what to do with the new information that is relevant to my problem or question.
The incubation of of new materials lead to us thinking our way into deep meaning. A person synthesizes our information by a conscious act of rearranging, combining, blending and harmonizing our information pieces until we can achieve insight-which enables us to think our way into deep meaning, supplementing the incubation process.
Finally to achieve this goal using the internet the author suggests we should use these defintions to find the best information.
They are pose essentil questions, identify subsidary questions, open one's mind, suggest and test hypothesis, build and test models, plan your internet voyage, learn on the run, screen and compact internet garbage, sort and sift through data, analyze data, find what is missing, change course if necessary.
To achieve the truth regquires deep reading and deep thinking. They are dule processors which inform such a search and lead us toward insight and illumination. He describes the web as a "pot luck supper" where we all want to feast but even though everything looks good its not. Good teachers need to help children make the right choices from the supper. This may take several hours of navigation and "gorging" will occur, but with time students will make the correct choices on their own.
Deep reading which begins with quality stories being read tor inspire deep thought in children carries on to the internet by having children being able to make contact with the text or may be a reflection aimed at resolving some unanswered question or dllemma. Its using essential questions to find the answer. Deep reading in the past meant reading lots of material and collecting. Now with the help of teachers, students can use search engines that are constant flowing source of information that is available at the touch of a button.
The information necessary to students can be obtained through the following categories.
ZINES or magazine sites such as NETSURFDIGEST and http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html are great sites.
The ListServ on a Special Interes serves as source by setting up a flow of messages on a particular topic interest. The sites such as Deja News and Listz are useful sites.
The customized E-Mail News Digest such as the New York Times allow you to request periodic digest or topics of interest. The set back with these sources is that you have to subscribe or pay a fee to use their information.
The Customized Info-Rich Screen Saver includes products like Pointcast to deliver headline news and updates to desktops as they happen. There is a constant stream which is free and customizable.
The Intelligent Vigilant Search Engine is available through IBM with a subscription and a monthly fee. It sends you two news deliveries a day on business news.
Now that we have great resources to start our knowledge quest we need to take our deep thinking process and put it to work. We need to read our way into deep thinking. This is done when we collect all our dat and start to sort, sift, select, ingest and then diget the most important parcels and morsels. We look for patterns, and conections taking out of the iformation what is relevant to our subjects and using prior knowledge to build onto new perceptions. Many of us use a process of incubaton where we are looking for information on a new idea and we keep churning in our minds all the material we gathered and suddenly we have an unconscious AHA that say I know what to do with the new information that is relevant to my problem or question.
The incubation of of new materials lead to us thinking our way into deep meaning. A person synthesizes our information by a conscious act of rearranging, combining, blending and harmonizing our information pieces until we can achieve insight-which enables us to think our way into deep meaning, supplementing the incubation process.
Finally to achieve this goal using the internet the author suggests we should use these defintions to find the best information.
They are pose essentil questions, identify subsidary questions, open one's mind, suggest and test hypothesis, build and test models, plan your internet voyage, learn on the run, screen and compact internet garbage, sort and sift through data, analyze data, find what is missing, change course if necessary.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Technology
Well friends it's almost the end of the semester and I feel like I'm might be actually getting the hang of computer work. I have actually managed to catch up with my projects. It's amazing what you can create on your computer with the push of a button.
Anne P.
Anne P.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
bringing schools oout of the 20th century
The article on Time/cnn.com entitled How to Bring Schools out of the 20th Century was very enlightening. It talked about how many schools still have students in rows in their classroom and have textbooks for learning.
Claudia Wells and Sonja Surprise the authors of this article state that even though the technology is there, many schools use it only in computer labs and libraries. A quote from Marc Tucker, the president of the National Center on Education says schools need to think "outside the box" because jobs in the new economy rely on put an emphasis on premium and innovative skills that start in the classroom.
Teachers should not be afraid of being outsourced or eliminated in their position, but use technology as a tool for better teaching. For example, using the Wilkipedia model to help create online courses in the classroom or as a guide gives students the opportunity to build on computer skills and make learning about facts more interesting than listening to lectures or reading from a book. Scott McNealy, whose company has led the way for this process learned this from personal experience when looking for a model about electricity that his son could understand. At suburban Farmington High the engineering technology department teachers work with a Ford Motor Co. engineer to help students in teams learn electronical engineering skills. The students use calculus and physics to learns skilly in the real world and solve problems. Students get a chance to prepare for the real world.
In conclusion I feel this article states that moving forward into the 21st century of teaching gives students a chance to be better prepared for the future. Something as educators like myself want for a student.
Anne P
Claudia Wells and Sonja Surprise the authors of this article state that even though the technology is there, many schools use it only in computer labs and libraries. A quote from Marc Tucker, the president of the National Center on Education says schools need to think "outside the box" because jobs in the new economy rely on put an emphasis on premium and innovative skills that start in the classroom.
Teachers should not be afraid of being outsourced or eliminated in their position, but use technology as a tool for better teaching. For example, using the Wilkipedia model to help create online courses in the classroom or as a guide gives students the opportunity to build on computer skills and make learning about facts more interesting than listening to lectures or reading from a book. Scott McNealy, whose company has led the way for this process learned this from personal experience when looking for a model about electricity that his son could understand. At suburban Farmington High the engineering technology department teachers work with a Ford Motor Co. engineer to help students in teams learn electronical engineering skills. The students use calculus and physics to learns skilly in the real world and solve problems. Students get a chance to prepare for the real world.
In conclusion I feel this article states that moving forward into the 21st century of teaching gives students a chance to be better prepared for the future. Something as educators like myself want for a student.
Anne P
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
techno;ogy
Since being in this techno;logy class, I have become more overwhelmed and frustrated with technology. I think it is great that we are able to create many things with our computer, but I think they should have made the process easier to understand. Upon further review ( I sound like a referee at a football game) I underatand most of it but it still frustrates me at times.
Anne P.
Anne P.
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