Hello Bloggers!
I just watched the YouTube video "Mr. Winkle Wakes" and I thought the video was very cute. This short video is about a little old man who seems to have just awoken from an 100 year sleep. He adventures out into the world in which we live in now and is fascinated (and somewhat scared) with all the noises and machines that our society is constantly using. He sees laptops, computers, and hospital machines all for the first time. Yet, when he walks into a classroom, he sees the familiarity and comfort of a teacher teaching her students without any technology.
Mr. Winkle must have walked into a very old school if he believes that schools are the same way they were 100 years ago. Almost all classrooms today have some sort of technology in them. Whether it be a computer, projector, smart-board, or even an audio tape. Even during college classes where the professor lectures the whole time without using the projector or computer, he would still find students that use their laptops to take notes(that is, if the teacher allows laptops during lecture). Professors no longer accept hand-written papers and having internet access is almost always required. The truth is, technology surrounds us everywhere we go, including educational environments.
Makes you think, though, how will schools be 100 years from now???
-Mallory
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Porta-what?
Hi Followers!
I just finished doing my first Portaportal.I had never heard of a Portaportal before but I believe that this tool is definitely something I could and will use in the classroom during my future teaching career. I could not only use it for personal use, but students could benefit from it, as well. Using a Portaportal is a great tool for creating lesson plans. Instead of having to either write down or bookmark five different websites for a unit, a teacher could put all the links in the Portaportal and have easy access to them at all times. They could also add the link to the online state standards for that unit plan. Students could use them to organize references for citations, projects, etc. The teacher could possibly create more than one portaportal and have one for her students to have access to. It could have links to online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses.
This tool could improve a student's learning in several ways. The student could revisit websites that they put on their portaportal and use them for future assignments. Instead of throwing all their references away, they have it all stored in one location. This tool is great, too, because it is simple and easy to use.
I'm glad I am now aware of this tool...it will come in handy!!
Mallory
I just finished doing my first Portaportal.I had never heard of a Portaportal before but I believe that this tool is definitely something I could and will use in the classroom during my future teaching career. I could not only use it for personal use, but students could benefit from it, as well. Using a Portaportal is a great tool for creating lesson plans. Instead of having to either write down or bookmark five different websites for a unit, a teacher could put all the links in the Portaportal and have easy access to them at all times. They could also add the link to the online state standards for that unit plan. Students could use them to organize references for citations, projects, etc. The teacher could possibly create more than one portaportal and have one for her students to have access to. It could have links to online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses.
This tool could improve a student's learning in several ways. The student could revisit websites that they put on their portaportal and use them for future assignments. Instead of throwing all their references away, they have it all stored in one location. This tool is great, too, because it is simple and easy to use.
I'm glad I am now aware of this tool...it will come in handy!!
Mallory
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