Sunday, April 28, 2013

Week 14 Learning and Technology


Holli Hardison

  Is technology needed in education?  If so, how much or how little?

2.     Why do you feel this way? Use references here.

3.     What kinds of technology education need to be included?

4.     When is it appropriate to start using technology?

5.     What kinds of things should be done using technology, what should be done using hands on materials (including pen and paper)

I think technology is needed in our education, our world is changing so much an out kids needed to know who to keep up with the change of technology. I think if our kids are learning at school they are learning the the right way to do things, an what can really happen if they use it the wrong way.



I will can say I feel that technology is a big part in our education. I will say I would not be able to be back in school if technology was not a big part in our education. I can also say just being able to watch my two kids learn how to play games on a I-Pad, and to see how much they learned in a short time is crazy.



I think a little bit of all kinds of technology should be used. I think is good for our kids to be able to learn on more than just one type of technology. I feel there will always be a new technology coming out so the more we know or the more our kids know the better we will at using it.



I think all ages are appropriate to start learning about technology. I also feel the younger they are the better it comes more natural to them they just get it.



I think a little of everything can be done with technology like math or reading, but can do like a 50/50 half with technology and the other half with materials.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Digital Footprints week 10

April 2011 | Volume 68 | Number 7
The Transition Years Pages 92-93

Digitally Speaking / Positive Digital Footprints


William M. Ferriter


A few months back, a group of 7th graders who were studying digital footprints with the guidance of teacher George Mayo at Silver Spring International Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, interviewed me. "Do you think most kids know what their digital footprint is?" they asked.
"You're the experts!" I replied. "What do you know about digital footprints?"

The students gave me a definition right out of my worst nightmare: Digital footprints are the trails people leave behind when they live online—and Internet predators use these trails to track down careless tweens and teens. "At our elementary school, they really tried to scare us," explained a group member. "It's like they wanted us to be afraid of what would happen if we used the Internet."
Sadly, their definition sounds familiar, doesn't it? Schools—caught up in sensational stories about cyberbullying, sexting, and Internet predation—spend an incredible amount of time trying to frighten digital kids. Although some students are at risk because of careless choices—openly talking about sex in digital forums, posting inappropriate pictures of themselves or their friends to the Web, or failing to act when confronted with dangerous situations in social media spaces—those risks are often poorly understood by teachers, who receive little training about how to effectively introduce Internet safety and new media literacies to students (Online Safety and Technology Working Group, 2010).

I thought this was a good definition from the kids that use it the most and what they think of it.


 This is so true and our kids need to learn this, what they do on any digital meadia is there for ever and who know were it could go or how could see it. I think it is really inportant for kids to learn about there digtal footprint.  To also learn how it can effect them in life now and latter.
Our digtal footprint is every were you go onto and digital meadia. It also follows you every were you go. The next time you are posting something you might want to think twice about it and how it can effect you latter on in life.




 

Friday, March 15, 2013

another part of my lesson plan week 8/9

I'm not really sure what happend to my lessson plan. I did have it fill out now it is just saying true.
My lesson plan was math for Pre K. We would do bacis counting, bicis adding and subtracting, learning the differences between them.
I would use some counting books
I would also use money


Math Lesson Week 8&9


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