After focusing on the surveys and expectations of the students use of technology, I felt that the data fell right along side my expectations. I grew up using technology, because my mom works with computers and I just pick up things from her. As far as my expectations I would say it was fairly close to what I expected. What does surpirse me is that teachers have the use of the internet in the classrooms and use of smart boards in most schools but do not use them. I know the teachers are not what we can Net Geners, but as teacher we are suppose to educate the children in our class and make sure they get the information we are teaching. If they are just lecturing about a topic and not engaging anyone in the class whats the purpose.
I jsut went through a guest teaching orientation and they show me how to use the internest and the smart board for many different subjects that would get the students engaged in thinking and interested in what I am teaching. This is a way a teacher can use the internet in the classroom, because right now teachers are not in the Net Gen. mode like the teachers that are up and coming. Most older teachers are not tech savey.
A question I would ask to all teachers working now, would they be willing to learn from student teachers on how the teachers could use the technology in the classroom? From there develop the use of technology in their every day classroom.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Copyright
I learned a lot when i read about the copyright. I was surprised to see how many of my teachers did violate the copyright rules. I had teacher take copies of books and give them to us to read and come in and discuss. Professors in college have done the same. The newspaper clippings that the professors or teachers use for current events I reakized that it was not copyright. What got the point across to me was the video with all the disney characters, I thought it was the best way the copyright laws got back to me. Outside of the school walls the downloading of songs that I know most people do is illegal, because you are violating the copyright, because the artist is not making any money off of the song. As a teacher when I assign a paper I will go over what is copyright and what is not copyright with my students, because I do not want my students to be taking and using another authors source.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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