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=__EDLD 5364 Teaching with Technology--Personal Updates__= __EDLD 5364 WEEK 1__

This week I learned about the different theories of how people learn. It was interesting to think back about lessons that I had in the past and what theory I assumed my students were using and what other teachers assumed I knew when I was taking a class. How I expected them to get the information and convert it into knowledge.

The most interesting part of this lesson was the Cyborg Learning Theory. I don’t know if society is really getting that lazy or if this is what we will have to do to keep up with technology. I would love to plug up to something and download all the knowledge that would be necessary to do a task. I don’t know that it would work completely because I feel part of the learning is practical experience. I think of it like someone who is book smart but is lacking in common sense. A person may have the knowledge but may not know how to apply the knowledge to practice.

__EDLD 5364 WEEK 2__

This week the readings and discussion seemed to be based on how technology affects student achievement. There was discussion about the Universal Design for Learning and how it affects teaching today. How UDL is basically adjustments made that everyone can use but it help the students that have learning difficulties or special needs. There was also discussion of rubrics, blogs, websites, and KWHL charts. Students can use the rubrics to guide their learning and websites and blogs can have vital information for student directed learning. The KWHL chart is created and filled out by the student to gauge the students learning. The chart has the students fill in what the know, what they want to know, how they plan to learn this information, and eventually what they learned. (Pitler, Hubbelll, Kuhn, & Malenoski, 2007) There was also discussion about the use of polls and surveys to set a base knowledge of the students and evaluate the students learning.

There was also discussion about the three networks or regions of the brain when it comes to learning. How the brain functions when the student is learning. The regions of the brain were as follows: The region for recognition learns the what of information, the strategic region learns the how and the affective region learns the why. It is important as educators that we stimulate all the regions of the brain to promote effective learning of a subject. = Works Cited = Pitler, H., Hubbelll, E. R., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). //Using Technology with Classroom Instruction tha Works.// Denver: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning.

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This week was very interesting for me. I have had a lot of experience in teaching student trainers but I have not had a lot of experience in lesson plans. This was very interesting to me but I did not think that it would be this time consuming. It was an eye opening experience for me and I enjoyed the process of learning these skills. The Cast website with all of the information and the book building as well as the lesson building made the process of doing all the skills easier but it still required a lot of thought from the educator. It made me think outside of my comfort zone as to what I was going to do with all my skills and how I would go about teaching it to all my student trainers.

__EDLD 5364 WEEK 4__  This week was a busy but fun week for me. This is the kind of technology I like to use with my students. Podcasts and power points made with Adobe Presenter. It is very interactive and fun to create as well as participate in the lesson. I had discussed how we have used this kind of technology for our faculty meetings in our school district.

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__EDLD 5364 WEEK 5__

 This is the final week of our class and class project. My group has come together nicely and we are collaborating on a lot of things which I think is making our project better. We have included lots of web 2.0 tools that I think will help students learn. Our target group was 3rd grade science and the lesson was over the solar system.

I contributed to the project by writing a script for a podcast. I recorded the pod cast in many different forms so that it can be used in many different ways. It was saved as an mp3 format so that it could be used with an audio player such as an Ipod or cell phone. The podcast was also saved as a mp4 format so that it have visuals or the script added to it so the student could read along with the podcast. It was also saved in wav format so that it could be added to computer programs such as a power point project.

The information for the week also talked about surveys and feedback. I was happy to see that some of the techniques that I am using with my student trainers are recommended in the book and on the videos. The videos that talked about games being and evaluation has held true in my class. I have tried to create games to help my students learn how to carry out an evaluation. I would not call it a true game as was shown on the video but the kids refer to it as the game when they ask if they can study about evaluations.

I have found that the last two classes have seemed to motivate me more on what I was already doing. I guess I just needed that positive feedback to keep me going.