HF’s Reflection for Day 2
Presentations.
I use presentations for parents (and school colleagues). I just don’t present to that audience very often. I don’t lecture kindergarteners. I do read aloud to a whole group regularly. I do meet with small groups (at eye level) for reading instruction regularly too.
When I am in a group of adults, which is rare, I share my thoughts aloud. I am not usually a presenter because I don’t want to be responsible for the happiness of a large group of adults. They are too hard to please.
As for my work/project from today and yesterday:
On Monday, I focused on the Next Generation Science Standards using Twitter, TeachersPayTeachers, and some science websites.
On Tuesday, I looked at technology through a personal lens. I usually send my husband one pic via email. I post a few pics on Facebook. This afternoon I tried, using my reunion pictures, making “movies” or “My Stories” with Google+. I have no clue yet if anyone got the work I tried to share with absent classmates (as well as you).
I played with:
On Wednesday, I might working on revising and/or updating preliminary data I have already collected on the incoming kindergarten class and enter my data into their PLPS or/maybe go back and look at photos( 3,000 pics?) taken for this year’s class to see if I should enter them into the kids’ PLPs before first grade begins.
It appears to be useful for reviews of materials. But, it also seems to need more than just a look to go over it all. I didn’t see how they decided the ratings. Maybe someone else saw that? This looks like a great resource for Heidi’s idea of sharing kindergarten websites.
Digital Citizenship More to it than teaching how to be safe online
I felt that Adam’s blog could have been a diary for Monday and Tuesday.
”...teaching kids to type, emailing, learning to build presentations, trying collaborative editing in Google Docs, and setting up a Twitter account to post in once a week during class… and watching a movie about bullying. Sarcastic, yes a bit… but true.”
This next quote also hit home.
“I asked ‘how many students get out of high school without learning how to make their home wi-fi secure?’ Is that as valuable as ….”
I do believe getting the electronics/technology in our homes to work is important. I tend to lean toward Amazon’s Macbook for Dummies, Android Phones for Dummies, etc. or the human resources in my home.
Lecture Problem. College kids not really understanding material. Kindergarten teachers work very hard to make sure folks are successful. I am glad that college instructors are trying to help their kids understand. I just don’t see myself as lecturing like a college professor with two hundred students.
Peer-Instruction Approach. This approach seems to work well with college, high school, and middle schoo. Therefore, the BRSU did try PMI (with Smartboards and class sets of responders/clickers). However kindergarteners are solving much less complex problems, I found that little ones could see the answer was “five “and so they pressed their buttons and whispered to their neighbors to just press the green button for “five” too! It was developmentally inappropriate for five year olds.
College. The University of Minnesota Rochester is a small college, with a much smaller than average tuition fee, that has very involved teachers. It sounds like a great place for adults. It offers ballroom dancing as a sport, and no fraternities or sororities. The kids that go there do not want a party school. I wonder about the social life there for young adults. It would not have suited my wishes after high school in 1984. I do like the cost. Here is the website for one semester charges.
Overall….
I am happy to be near adults and to have “me” time. It is refreshing not to have tie shoelaces, cut up apples, zip zippers, etc.
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