Blog for Nov 13

(individual) In your blogs, discuss how you, or other teachers, might use some of the tools you've learned about this semester to develop instructional supplements for their content area. Try to be specific as you discuss this. What could you (or others) create, specifically, that you could use to help students learn? Discuss how this relates back to cognitive information processing. Then, describe how you (or others) could have students using some of these tools for learning content. Try to come up with specific examples of this. Then, discuss how this use of the tools relates back to either cognitive information processing or constructivist learning environments.


Ultimately I have used and will continue to utilize the programs and concepts that I learned in this masters program thus far. I use google docs to create documents that I can access in school to print in the teacher's center for example, then I publish them to my google sites for students to view at home if they leave the paper in school, and also can forward the information to a child's parent email address. This would not have been as easy if I hadn't learned the programs this semester. I have created online lessons for students to continue their own education at home. These include cognitive information processing techniques like reviewing past material, linking material to current events, and assessing students with extra credit opportunities. Ultimately I am using what my students already know about youtube for example, and applying it and showing them how the programs could be used for educational purposes.
My class would also work as a constructivist classroom online as well. If I post documents for example for one class to view and write questions, have another class do the basic research for the chapter, and a third class create an assessment, I have ultimately made the students more responsible for their own learning therefore it is constructivist in nature. Google docs and technology in the classroom can help with technology out of the classroom and social networking with students via engrade (online grading assessment). This also allows parents to view and keep a heads up on their children for work that is assigned.