Prezi

This is a Prezi that two of my peers and I made for 21st century teachers.

What Does Success Really Mean in 21st Century Middle Schools? on Prezi

PowerPoint (terrific)

In my Tech for Teaching and Learning class, at Edinboro University, my teacher required the students to make a powerpoint that we could use in the classroom.  The powerpoint could not be part of the actual lesson though. It had to be some type of review of what we had already taught them.  I am going to be a middle school math teacher so my powerpoint was on the order of operations.  I hyperlinked a creative rap video from youtube to help the students remember the order of operations.  Then I created good practice problems to review the order of operations.  Right after the practice problems I hyperlinked this review page in case they needed some further help.  Once the students completed the practice problems and reviewed they could play jeopardy, which was the last part of the powerpoint.

After creating the powerpoint, to assess what we have created, the teacher had us present it to a couple of our classmates.  Then our classmates were the ones that graded what we have done.  I was comfortable with this because I have worked with powerpoint for a long time so I was confident in what I had created.  My classmates' powerpoints were also pretty good and I am sure they will all be able to use technology in their future classrooms wisely.

Two More for The Roll

The first blog, called Let's Play Math, is a blog that can benefit any present or future math teachers.  There are a lot of topics in this blog, but the main idea is great games that math teachers can use to help their students have fun and learn at the same time.  This is a fun blog for teachers to learn many things and I intend on taking advantage of it.

The second blog is about something I have had a passion for all my life, basketball.  I have played basketball since I was two years old and have never stopped.  This blog is about everything that is happening inside the NBA, hence the name of the blog InsideHoops.  This is very up to date about every little detail on injuries, staff changes, deals, and everything else you can think of that has to do with professional sports.  Another reason why I chose this blog is because, even though this is my professional blog, I feel people should know more about me in a professional blog than just I want to be a teacher.

My Beliefs about Technology and Learning

I believe that technology is very important to learning in the classroom for any subject.  It keeps the mind active rather than just staring at the teacher and listen to them talk. Also, even though it is not much, they are being active.  More active than sitting in a chair taking notes.  These are two things that I believe are crucial to keeping a student interested in what they are learning.

Another thing that makes technology in the classroom important is the world's technology is rapidly getting more advanced.  Students need to stay up to date on this technology so when they grow up they can use it and keep improving it.

The only pitfall I can think of is if we use more technology, there will be less reading.  Students will always need to be strong readers so when we use more and more technology, we need to make sure that the students reading scores stay high.

Important to Me

Active Learning

One thing that is important to me in the classrooms that I believe need to change is the students need to be more active.  There is way too much just sitting in a chair and listening, especially in the middle and high school levels. It has been proven that active learning helps the students to learn better so why are teachers not using it?  Teachers need to learn how to adapt to what is best for the students instead of just doing what they are comfortable with.

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