When I was in high school, I had decided to go to summer school but not because I was behind in classes but because I wanted to stay ahead of the game. I had always had a tough time with math, I decided that summer (which was May and June) I was going to take extra math classes and have a tutor. In my classroom, because there was a lot students the teacher couldn't get to all of us would do something similar to a "pencast." It is pretty much a "digital version" of the your notes and has audio. Making it somehow like you where there again re-acting the lesson. This would really help because sometime getting home and having a snack and maybe a nap and when I wake up I would forget how my teacher would do the assignment but I had my pencast on my computer and I would remember how to do it again. This was really helpful not only to me but to other students.
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I really like the idea of teachers sharing information through social media nowadays . If you really think about it, how many parents still go through the child's backpack now? Unless there is a sticker on the child's shirt saying "don't forget tomorrow is picture day," or something like that. Parents have a lot on their mind. But because the world now runs on texting, emailing, or just getting on Facebook, teachers should use this to their advantage and possibly create a Facebook, and have parents check it for any important dates like picture day, the Christmas party or not forgetting there is practice even though it's raining. You know something like this could help a lot of parents stay ahead of the game. I'm pretty sure if I was a parent this would really helpful because kids will throw their backpacks and parents would not think twice to check it and see if they have report cards or their practice schedule.
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When I got to college I didn't need to take my sciences till I was a sophomore. I had to take biology and chemistry at the same. ( I know worst mistake ever) But anyway, my professors knew that these subjects were hard for students and the fact that everyone learns differently too. But they did ask feedback from their students and the students did tell the professors that way that the majority learned was watching tutorials on YouTube about certain subjects, but the majority were on science classes. so my professor did have their own YouTube videos about the material we had learned in class. This really helped me and other students because we could watch it over and over again until it stuck in our mind, I know it did for me. I also liked that sometimes they would have students on their YouTube videos sometimes teaching some material, I felt related to that person and for some reason it made sense.
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Great job on the Creative Commons licensed photos - and can't wait until I get my mobile device and pay your Kahoot. Nice job. Rather than linking your YouTube, however, you will want to embed the video right within your post. Let me know if you have any questions on that.
ReplyDeleteI like that you highlighted the Livescribe pencast - they didn't appear to catch on as well as other media, but replicating a pen that most student would use to write notes, solutions, etc, is both easy and effective. A number of years ago, one of our math teachers would create a pen cast of that day's lessons so student could access at home if they were having problems with the concept or missed class then. It puts the responsibility for learning on the students, instead of on the teacher/medua specialist