Final thought

This class opened my mind to learn and know that there were different learning technology tools could be used in classroom. These tools as Pransky (2009)mentions help to enhance the teacher classroom and make students more motivate to learn. From my experience as students first and teacher, classroom become more intersting to students if it has the variety of teaching styles.

Chapter 10 – Assessment in the Partnering Pedagogy: and Conclusion in Prensky book

Chapter 4 - How to Assess Digital Products in Johnson book

This week reading opened my mind about something I think it is so importance. Maybe some educators thought different about it, but to me it is good point to start teaching students in this century. I really agree with Prensky (2009) points about evaluate students depending to the tools that they are usually use even if that would not be involve in their standardized test. Students now are more likely to be involved in these kinds of tools because their feeling of learning enjoyment.

As educator and future teacher, I would enhance this in my classroom and be able to evaluate the students’ depending in their knowledge of using these tools. From my experience as mom for a 4^th grade daughter, I see how important to her have internet access in the house and the ability to use different tools. However, she shows me the enjoyment of using these tools to do her homework assignment.

Finally, it was a wonderful experience as educator to be involved at the learning process of this class because this class give me the opportunity to gather different information and expect about enhance and use technology in classroom.    

Google Form, Google Earth, Word Cloud, and Mind Mapping

This week I learn in class four new tools:

The first one was Google Form. It was easy tool to use and wonderful for me as a teacher to make quizzes and survey related to classroom. The most things I like about this tool that I can see all students answers after they submit it in kind of table format, which is cool to read and grad. I really like the different kinds of background format that I could use. As I said before, it is good tool for creating quizzes, especially the choices of choosing the answer box, which includes text, text paragraph, or multiple choices.

Then, Google Earth is a good to use it, in classroom because it gives 3D pictures that helps students to explore places they could not go before. I really think to use this tool with students to enhance their writing skills by make them travel around the world and choose place to take about it after they take the pictures.

After that, Mind Mapping which is a tool helps to organized ideas or thought. Teacher could use this tool in classroom to organize her lesson plan or with the students. To me, I will use this tool to help the students to make their essay brain storm. Also, I will use to organize my classroom activities schedule.  

Lastly, Word Clouds which is a program could be used in education. This tool helps to create cloud-shaped based to the words that I used. I think I will use this tool in my class to help the students enhance their vocabulary words. I mean every week, students have to find synonyms words and presented in the classroom or in blog.  

google form
in the google form i made a kind of review of books by asking students to chosse one of the two books and answers the questions about it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AxGusNE0vqsoTYQFpD2VSGZY5iKm_xJoILs7cth21gI/viewform

Ch. 8 Let your students create

Ch. 9 Continuous improvement through practice and sharing

This week, I learned numerous of things to present…. starting with encouraged students to be creative “as part of their formal learning” (Prensky, 2010, p.149). So as a partnering teacher, I should to enhance their creativity to give them the opportunity to show their knowledge. Also, teacher should be understood to their students’ ways of thinking and their expected of having class with more variety of teaching style, Prensky mentions that teachers should “understand that what today’s students want to create, and can create, is not the stuff of the past” (p. 150).  

Also, I learned about “Slackers” students and what I should do to understand their needs because they are really smart but some of them feel boredom of the teacher teaching style. Prensky said “slackers always have a reason for their behavior” (p.156) and teacher job is to know their reason and find their passion to enhance it.

Moreover, I learned the importance of learning a new tools and technique to use in my classroom. Using variety of teaching methods in class would enhance my partnering teaching. This learning could come from sharing your knowledge with colleagues and learn from their experiences.

Furthermore, I learn the importance of continuing improve my partnering teaching through practicing. These days I practice action research to enhance the reading motivation in the students learning skills. This helps me a lot to enhance my teaching methods by observing my teaching technique and work to improve it.

  Norah Alsana

it is wonderful experience to use story bird tool.. i work with my daughters to create our fun story.. they choose the pictures, and write it with me .... i think this tools really useful to students to enhance their creativity to make their own story and choose their own sitting and characters..
this my Story ..... enjoy
http://storybird.com/books/the-happy-family-136/

Visual Learning Tools

This week me and my group work in three web tools includes ( Animoto, Digital Story Telling, Image Editing & Enhancement). It was fun to work with students in all the tools and show them how that works. I really enjoy using Animoto and Digital Story Telling before, but editing & enhancement is a new tool to use and I like the idea of do not have to make your own account. I think I can use these tools in classroom with my students to enhance using technology. However, it is useful tools to present your lesson plan in front of your kids or use it in history class so you can make your students choose their topic and find their pictures and download it with music. it is wonderful idea to enhance students to research their interested topic and fund the information after that they can create their video and show it to their peers.   

Norah Alsana