Alanah EME2040

I will use data collection and reporting tools often as a teacher. I can use both of these tools for organizational purposes and a way of gaining information for myself. I can use data collection surveys to create surveys that ask my students questions about how confident they feel with their comprehension of material so I can analyze their responses and see if the class seems to be grasping the concepts well enough and decide if I can test them or need to spend more time teaching the curriculum. I think that parent involvement is very important, especially for parents of elementary school students because it is the beginning of their child's educational career. This being said I can also use surveys as a way to get parents input and use their responses to guide my teaching styles. I can use excel to create seating charts that way I can organize my students into table groups that I know will create a successful learning environment by controlling where and by who certain student

A flipped classroom is where students watch prerecorded lectures outside the classroom as homework. Then in the classroom, instead of listening to the teachers lecture, students are doing more hands on work with the lessons they watched outside of the classroom. The section in chapter ten says that this allows for students to form a deeper understanding of material because they first learn the content outside of school and then are able to come into the classroom and actual practice with the content learned with other students with the teacher there to help clarify and guide them with anything they need. I kind of like this concept because it allows for more instructional time to practice material learned which can help a student actually understand what is being taught and not just memorize the material. I do not like this design though because personally it is harder for me to learn from listening to a video on my own, it is easier for me to learn when I have a teacher in fr

Adaptive technologies are any devices used to assist students with disabilities in the classroom. These devices are specific to each students needs so they can have an equal learning opportunity within the classroom. For example, the podcast lists that students with vision problems can have a device that magnifies text so the student can see more clearly. My grandma is blind and has to use one of the magnifying devices in order to read.  There are devices for visually impaired students that have audio capabilities so that the student can still have the information delivered to them. For physically disabled students there are other tools such as joysticks that the student can use as opposed to using a mouse pad in order to make operating the device simpler. The only challenge I see in using adaptive technologies in my classroom is ensuring that I properly know how to use and operate the device so I can help my student understand how to use it. Another issue could be if the device sto

So far my experience with Twitter has been good. I have been able to learn about different technological advances in the classroom from articles that other students have posted. I like following different educational Twitter pages because it allows me to see new additions or changes in the educational world. Benefits of Twitter include being able to collaborate with other whether it be classmates or anyone in the world, you can communicate and share ideas with many people. With Twitter you can also see and learn new things from viewing what people tweet. The biggest problems I have had with Twitter is forgetting to tweet on a weekly basis. Other than that Twitter is very easy to use. I did not like the web page design assignment at first because it was very difficult to navigate the website and figure out how to use the tools. I struggled the most with trying to figure out how to format pictures and texts to look and fit nicely on the page. I learned how to use an embedded goo

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  https://www.lcps.org/Page/154252 I chose to examine the teachers class pages from Creighton's Corner Elementary School. I viewed different class pages from grades K-5th to get an idea of how each grade differed. The screenshot of the class website is a fifth grade teacher at Creighton's Corner. All of the class pages I viewed I was able to see a photo of the teacher along with a paragraph describing the teacher, giving fun facts about themselves, goals for the school year, expressing excitement for the class, etc. I noticed that a lot of the older grade level teachers had multiple links on their page for other educational resources and websites. I was able to click and view these extra links. The fourth grade teachers actually had linked their fourth grade class twitter page to their class page, however the twitter account was on private so I was not able to view this information. I will use technology in my classroom to help enhance communication with the