Chart of Google Survey-What grade do you want to teach?

Google Survey

Blogging in the Classroom

When I am a teacher, I will try to use blogging in my classroom often. I think blogs are a very good tool to get your voice heard. Blogs can be made public and the entire world can hear your story. I think students love this idea, because they are not just writing a paper for the teacher, but they are creating a masterpiece for the world. By using blogging as a writing tool, instead of just the traditional pencil and paper, it gives students an opportunity to do express their ideas in a different fashion. Blogging also helps children to learn what to put on the internet and what not to. This is a very important lesson that some children do not know, and blogging could help to teach this. By using blogging in my classroom, the students have a chance to express their creativity. As a future teacher, I think it is a good idea to incorporate blogging into lessons to get children more involved and excited about learning.

Creativity in Education

According to Sir Ken Robinson schools kill creativity by telling students that mistakes are the worst thing that they can do. When children are young, they aren't scared of being wrong. Schools don't prepare kids to be wrong and if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything to original. According to the reading, schools can promote creativity by encouraging the entire staff, especially teachers, to step outside their comfort zone and try something different. Teachers need to find another way of teaching the same thing. This can be done by playing a game, or making a craft with the material. By using some creativity, the students and teachers alike, will be happier and will look forward to learning. Creativity is not easy, but it will be more beneficial to everyone involved in the end. One thing that I wish my teachers knew about me as a learner, is that I am very hands-on. I would rather learn and explore the material through my hands, instead of through my ears. As a learner, I also like teachers who I feel are approachable. If I feel like I can come up to a teacher and talk about a problem, then I do exceedingly better in that class.

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Learning Style

By doing the learning style test, I have learned that I am both a kinesthetic and visual learner. Having two strong preferences is called multimodal. I have taken a few of these tests before and learned that I am slightly more of a kinesthetic learner than I am visual. I learn best by doing hands-on activities; these help me to understand and retain the information. A few study strategies for kinesthetic learners are: put plenty of examples into your summary, talk about your notes with another person, use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea, and role play the exam situation in your own room. For visual learners, a few study strategies are: reconstruct the images in different way-try different spatial arrangements, redraw your pages from memory, and replace words with symbols or initials. I feel that this test is pretty accurate because I do learn both kinesthetically and visually.

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Edmodo Reflection

The number one reason that the fifth grade students liked using Edmodo to publish their writing was that they could have other people, including their friends, read their work. They liked the collaborative writing activity the best. This is where they wrote a paragraph, and we added another, to guide them in a direction with their stories. I personally loved this project! It gave me a chance to work with fifth grade students on their writing skills, and to see how they react to me as a future teacher. I learned that there is a wide range of writing levels in one grade. Some students are already very creative in their writing and others need some guidance. This helps me to realize that when I get out into the classroom that I will have students of all abilities. I will have to learn to accommodate different learning styles and levels, while trying to help each student be the best that they can be. I might implement a collaborative science project in my classroom, where the students would come up with ideas and have another group critique it and give feedback on how to make it better. The students would then create the project incorporating the ideas from the other group. I would then have each child take a picture of their project and post it up on the microblogging site and have the other group comment on them. I would finally have a possible skype session with the students and other group, so the children would have a chance to see who commented on their project and what they think about it.