Hey again! In this blog I am going to be talking about some things that we learned about in our class this week. We used Diigo again and I continue to grow my knowledge during each lecture. I learned that you can comment on other people's annotations. I had no idea that we were able to be so interactive through a class website. This would be useful in the classroom to allow students to communicate positively with each other even when not together, such as for homework assignments. We can use this technology amongst team members to pool our resources together. In individual professional efforts, the website allows you to bookmark and annotate a website without printing off the entire thing.
Bloom's taxonomy is a conceptual pyramid that describes the process of learning. Powerpoint can be used at each level of this pyramid. The first level is remembering the information. This is the most basic step of learning. Powerpoint can be used to give visual examples for the concept that is being learned. Powerpoint can also be used to help students understand the material by being interactive. It is hard for students to understand and retain information if they aren't being challenged. They can then apply this information to their own life and experiences. After being able to apply the information to their own life and being able to relate they can then look further into the information and analyze how this concept can affect other people and can look further into the powerpoint to discover more information. After fully evaluating the information, they can create their own powerpoint presentation on the concept that was taught.
- A paragraph about technology and teacher professional development. Teachers are tasked with being the driving force of technology innovation in education -- which is directly related to professional development, how we stay aware of changes. Post a screen shot, link, and description of one site you could use to stay informed of technology trends
Technology in education is important because the classroom is the students' main source of information. If we, as teachers, don't implement updating technology into our lessons then we are doing our students a disservice. I found a website that can be used to inform others of technology trends. It talks about emerging technologies such as virtual reality or robots and things as simple as incorporating art into class standards. Attached is the website that I found.
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