My expectations have been already transformed for this new upcoming school year. The learning process is changing all around the world via multimedia and, as a part of this global structure, we have the obligation to update ourselves and become better digital citizens of this nowadays small world so called home.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Reflection
My expectations have been already transformed for this new upcoming school year. The learning process is changing all around the world via multimedia and, as a part of this global structure, we have the obligation to update ourselves and become better digital citizens of this nowadays small world so called home.
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We all have the obligation to share our technological knowledge to construct a better digitalized society.
Be cautious with the content they find on the web especially when it comes from unfamiliar sources.
I would like to transmit to my class that just like any citizen has got the right to go to school and learn to read, write, add and multiply ordinarily. There is also a different way to acquire knowledge and a new fashion to interact with innovating devices to accomplish it. I’d like to state that such new era comes with its own challenges for our society including ethics, security and obligations.
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Coincidentally, I happen to have several friends that either teach in elementary or middle schools down in Mexico City. That makes me wonder the possibilities that we have in our hands to connect our students with the rest of the world in real time. I am sure that we can interact with other classrooms in a different country and learn from them at the same time; not only their language but their culture in general: customs, traditions and holidays.
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Including videos into the learning process represents such a very powerful tool in this more becoming teledirected instruction; television simple makes things to come alive, in real time if necessary, so the children have a positive reinforcement of topics, previously discussed in class, that illustrate such diversity of themes.
Kids seem to be more involved into the matter of study when it is represented by images in a coherent sequence; they also seem to abstract and better develop such themes when they are prompted to respond to what they are being exposed to.
I posted two videos that may be useful in a 3rd grade class. The first one is about a guy that trekked across the Amazonas River for two and half years, those images provide us, as educational leaders in our classrooms, with the opportunity to explain concepts such as landforms, maps, exploration, tropical life structures, etc…The second one is about Martin Luther King Jr. and it can be used to introduce one of the greatest American heroes and the importance of our civil rights and obligations as citizens.
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Digital stories are indeed fun! Our students will definitely be captivated by the magic and visual power of images of themselves and personal environment. The best thing of all is the opportunity that we have to provide a meaning to those images either by sequencing them, in order to fit them into a photo story or developing a narrative out of it. Possibilities are as limited as our imagination, I clearly see the usage of this tool to document classroom experiments, represent life cycles, record field trips and even to create a class photo album.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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Monday, August 9, 2010
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
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It is great to get to know a different way to share files, all at once with multiple contacts, plus having updates and feedbacks in real time. I found pretty interesting the application Forms since it could be used in the classroom to get responses from students to certain topics or even apply quizzes of the curriculum, which would mean less grading time consuming and immediate data feedback.
Google reader would make our life easier by offering the possibility to organize our contacts and their responses in a much more simple way that would enable us to follow and update our particular sites of interest in a very practical fashion.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
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2) Interiorizing the out world via multimedia offers a totally new paradigm for the humankind that slowly sees the homo sapiens walking away to presence the arrival of the homo videns whom relies on data transmitted and transferred in such an unorthodox way.