EME2040 Blog

       For the second ILP, I decided to do mine on a TEDx Talks video about technology in the classroom. This video brought up some really great point as to why technology is beneficial in school, even to the younger students. I really liked the point of the weight of materials being brought up. By making things such as textbooks accessible to students through devices such as tablets, not only will it be lighter to carry but the students will be less likely to forget their materials as well.      The link to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gya4V_grs_o . By transitioning students to use technology to their benefit now, it will help the adjustment later on in life be easier. There are so many ways to make students lives easier, and as educators we should try our best to provide these opportunities to them. Overall, technology has the ability to drastically improve education and we as educators just have to use the resourc...

     In my future career as a teacher, I can see myself using excel to help me in my classroom. I feel like I will mainly use the tool for keeping tracks of grades, but that alone will be a big help. It will compute and record the grades for me, while allowing me to save it all in one location. I can see myself using surveys to find out more about my students and how to improve my teaching. By improving my teaching, it will hopefully improve their experience in my classroom.       Through reviewing the blogs of my classmates, I really liked finding out about how everyone will apply tools differently in the classroom. I loved how people shared their ideas of using things such as Pinterest to benefit their classroom one day. By getting to see all the different ideas and opinions, I think it has broadened my view on the accessible tools I already have to help in the classroom. I've enjoyed being able to recognize new possible techniques and learn f...

    A flipped classroom is a newer trend in the educational world. This is where the typical idea of learning in the classroom and doing activities for homework is reversed. In a flipped classroom, students would learn the lesson at home through things such as podcasts, online videos, etc. Then when they come to school they will do activities and assignments related to what they have learned. This allows the more hands on activities and where you practice what you learned while the teacher is present. Here is a link to an article that discusses a flipped classroom more in depth: http://educationnext.org/the-flipped-classroom/      In the podcast we heard the terms open education, open content, and open source. Open education overall is making education easier to access for all. There are often a lot of limitations put on education and how to receive it. The goal of open education is to make getting it more achievable for everybody. Open content is w...