Link
to Website
Reflection
This
course overall was a great one because of the practical use that it shows not
only in where education is going in the future, but technologies that are
already in use today. Having my professional website set up is truly exciting
to me because I can edit it to use this year in my classroom. I plan to create
a page over the next few weeks that will be dedicated to my classroom. On this
page I will include sections for both students and parents and general information
about our new personalized learning program. My hope is that both my students
and parents will find it very informative. I also plan to work with my team to
create a website specifically designed for our program especially since Wix
Sites is so user friendly to create.
Another
thing that I plan to continue after this course is reflecting in my blog on
what I am working on throughout my graduate studies. I have already had
comments from friends and coworkers regarding some of my posts that I am really
excited about. Several people have mentioned that some of the things I posted
about have really been a help and one person even shared my blog on academic
search engines with a friend of his. I can definitely see how blogging can help
share information about education and if implemented carefully in the
classroom, could help students communicate ideas with each other. A huge
takeaway from this class for me this year is becoming more creative in ways
that students are sharing class information. Why not allow them to create a
website, blog, digital image publishing, video presentation or use social media
to communicate their final product? In our world of technology, it seems wrong
to not encourage our students to learn how to use it educationally.
There
is not much that I would change about this class. Although at first it was
difficult to understand what was expected, communication between teacher and
students was great. I think that after a week or so everyone was pretty much on
the same page. At first I was worried about not having a lot of time between
units and juggling everything, but found everything we were studying so
interesting that it did not seem like much once getting into it. The only
suggestion I would have in the future is allowing a little more time at the
beginning to get the final project proposal submitted. Maybe by having that due
along with the unit 1 deliverables, it would not have made that first week of
getting everything set up so stressful. Looking back, however, this was such a small
thing that I do not think it matters greatly in the end. Because I would not change
much if anything about this course, I cannot think of any real weaknesses. It would
be nice to have been able to have class video discussions, but with there being
so many people in the class and it being a 100% online class, I am not sure how
to go about doing that. Overall this was a great class!
As I already mentioned, the key strengths of this class are the realistic ways in which you can implement the information from the course immediately in the classroom. Sure there was a lot of technology in our readings and discussions that is years in the future, but there is so much that we looked at that can be implemented relatively easily right now. I look forward to experimenting with these technologies throughout this next school year and the rest of my teaching career. The other thing that I really enjoyed with this course was looking into the future of education. While there are many technologies that are still in the beginning stages of understanding how to use them in the classroom, there are so many that are being studied to improve our current teaching methods and benefit our students’ education. As a teacher, it is truly encouraging to know that there are so many great things coming soon to education and I look forward to implementing them with my own students in the fu
No comments:
Post a Comment