EME2040 Education and Technology

      So a "Flipped Classroom" is something I absolutely dislike. I have been in several different flipped classrooms in college, Spanish 2203 and Spanish 2204 were the two flipped classes I had and I can personally say I did not learn anything and if I did I did not remember it in the long run. Also, my fiancee is in Medical School and his first two years of medical school they did a flipped classroom style of learning, for for the whole two years I wanted him and his friends struggle to understand information that absolutely could not understand on their own and no one was actually teaching any information. I think that it is a good idea in theory but I have seen how many times it does not work and the information does not stick in someones mind the same way. Now maybe for some people they like a flipped classroom learning style, however I do not believed this should be the only type of classroom and students should be given a choice. Some students learn best from a tra...

     There are many adaptive technologies for students with disabilities, some which I knew about and others that i just heard/learned of in the chapter and in the podcast. One that I found interesting was, Talented and Gifted Students, (TAG). I did not know or did not remember this was grade school so i thought it was a really good adaptive technology to read up on. " For talented and gifted (TAG) students, computer technology can provide access to information and stimulating resources at appropriately challenging levels. Although gifted students do not need support or remediation for minimal skills, they do need continual challenges to maintain interest and motivation to meet their personal potentials. Problem solving, simulations, and interactive experiences are of particular benefit to challenge and engage TAG learners" (67). More information can be found in the book on this page and in the podcast.       Power point can be used for students at ev...

     So far I have not really liked the twitter assignment. I do not use social media much and i have never had a twitter until this class, so I find it very difficult to remember to post twice a week on twitter. I also am a Spanish major and have five 4000 level Spanish classes this semester which makes it even harder for me to remember about the twitter. I have found a few good articles and such on twitter, however I do not feel like they are helping me anymore than what we are learning from the book and in class. I feel most of the things I find on twitter are repetitive. I don't know why I don't like twitter more, maybe it's because I feel people abuse social media or spend too much time on it, or maybe its because politicians and the President use when it really isn't something that shouldn't be used to talk about important subject. My whole life ion school though I have thrived off literature and language though and I fell that maybe this has made me have a di...

So I choose Class Dojo and made a presentation on Prezi. I was unaware that PreziNext no longer has the voice recorder attachment and therefore I could not upload the voice recording from voice thread. Instead I made a recording of the document with me explaining the steps to Class Dojo. I  have uploaded them both below: https://prezi.com/p/m5ovgjngdet2/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Wr4HPciWNKV1pPdFp2N0J6anR4c0RqMWZnY1B3cXN4RjQ4/view

     To find a teachers website page I went to my old high school's website to see if they had anything like this for their teachers because I did not remember them having a website. I did find though, that they have on their website a picture of every teacher and a link with their name that connects you to a page with their information on it. There was not much on their other than, their name, subject they taught, and their email. I picked a foreign language teacher for all grades.             http://mhspanthers1.weebly.com/cheri-kaniper.html      I do not plan to use a lot of technology to teach with in my class, however, I do plan on using technology to keep up with my responsibilities as a teacher. I hope to have a website or page I can upload daily work and/or homework for my students to be able to keep up with things. Also, having something like this for my students to check will help eliminate time takin...

Today is about the Web 2.0 tools and what are not allowed in classroom. We were assigned to listen to a podcast about the issue and write about which one we would have liked to use and why some of the tools are no longer allowed; however, i was not able to open up the podcast and could not find it online.      I did some research online about Web 2.0 tools since the podcast link was not working and I found a tool that I like and might use in my future classroom. It's a mapping tool called, Popplet and it allows students to work and collaborate with other students. This could be very helpful in my future classroom, since I am teaching a foreign language, this could help my students work together and figure out how to do their homework and help them remember words and grammar.   https://teaching.pitt.edu/blog/web-2-0-tools-in-teaching-and-learning/      I believe the biggest technology advancement we have made is "t he SynergyNet project funded by the...