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Digital Blog Post #A - Chapter 1

I really find interesting Instructional Practices because it supports the idea of working directly with students. Meaning the teacher is interacting directly with the students. They use certain activities like for example a group meeting online, having the student show presentations, allowing students to use wireless devices if in a group project. I really like it when I can come to class and be okay with the fact that my professor will engage with the students and not just sit behind a desk with a monotone voice telling us what to do. I usually get bored when they do that and make me want to just up and leave.

In the teaching philosophy, I like the how the student is the “student-centered teaching.” Where the teacher is engaging the students in conversations, ask the questions. Trying to get the student involved and not just using their test score as to whether or not they understood the lesson. It is all based on problem based teach. When I was in high school I had a bit of a tough time of understanding certain concepts so I liked when my teachers would come up with this crazy conversations/ discussions with me or other students and have us involved and making us understand it in a different direction.

How is it possible that only 80% of our teachers use their computers for personal use, word processing, data management but only half of that number teachers use it in the classroom. I would think that more teachers would want to use all these resources and technology in the classroom and get the students involved and engage them.  I’m not the only one that is shocked, there have been studies showing that it is the least technology used in the majority of classrooms. It's like having the fastest car but using your bike to get to work. It makes no sense.

• Instructional Practices. (n.d.). Washington: US Department of Education.
• Kenkmann, A. (2009). Teaching philosophy. London: Continuum.
• Textbook - 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.