Digital Badge #I

Approaches to lesson Planning:

I think the background design of technology is a part of what caught student’s attention. When it comes to video games and the computer technology background images and audio sounds are appealing to the students senses which is the direct way we receive, respond, and process information.  I also think that technology enforces student centered learning why, I think the computer act as the teacher. It instructs students in an efficient and effective way which the design of technology convey information. The active engagement comes from the student who receives the information. This requires the mind to think in ways familiar to the students as a result, with the help of technology students then begin to incorporate new knowledge and understanding into their views and values as a result students begin to think critically and solve  problems this help move knowledge from a way of memorizing to knowledge actually learned. Memorization is a frontage road it’s a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning a way of answering without understanding. What separates memorization from learning is a sense of meaning. When you memorize a fact, it's arbitrary, interchangeable it makes no difference to you whether sine of π/2 is one, zero, or a million. But when you learn a fact, it's bound to others by a web of logic. It could be no other way. Technology I think shows the visual picture  that knowledge is not fixed and no we cannot all understand it the same way I feel this is why something is missing from teacher centered learning.

Assessing and evaluating students:

I know there is no simple way to evaluate student’s process in school.  Choosing the lesson, teaching the lesson, evaluating student’s growth progress since there is no definite way that shows students growth, knowing which route to go I think depends on the student individual needs. I know from experience when you begin to work one on one with a child you begin to see their strengths and weaknesses and this is what I think lets you know which one of the two performance assessment method to use.

Using Electronic Grading Software:

I find the virtual record keeping system well like by many students  I can say I personally like it too, I like that I can see the due date for all the assignments for the whole outline of the class semester along with what percentage we assignment is worth.it is a somewhat quick way to receive your feedback.

Meeting Educational Standards:

21st century technology in society has made education change where they have lagged behind. In today’s digital world teachers have to convey teaching curriculum with technology to engage students in the classroom. With the mandate on teachers to teach and review large amounts of curriculum teaches have to add technology into their style of teaching with all the pressure placed in them for standardized testing purposes. I think teachers need to have more focus placed on student centered learning. I think with the help of using technology to enhance teaching with instructional practice method however, I do understand that a teacher’s decision in what they teach and how they teach it is to some degree not in their control they have to abide by about four different curriculum standards. National, state, and local school district standards. Personally I think this is where things go wrong when it comes to education and education I think it’s funny how each has a different standard they are not all on one accord. But law enforcement from state to state and county to county if you commit a crime all work together should not education be the same? How do we teach and expect children to be persistent when we as adults are not; we are the ones who set the example for them.

Resources:

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Orlin, B. (2013, September 9). When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning. Retrieved September 21, 2014, from http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/when-memorization-gets-in-the-way-of-learning/279425/

Liakos, N. (n.d.). Engrade: An Open-Source Online Gradebook Image. Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume11/ej44/ej44int/

Miss Keith's Adventures in Student Teaching Image. (n.d.). Retrieved September 23, 2014, from http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/laurak89/2014/02/23/lesson-planning/