This class was my second technology class in master degree. I have been teaching more than 15 years and I thought master degree classes are going to be little bit higher education level. I was wrong. Each class is teaching and showing me that there are more things to learn all the time. So I started expecting more from each class and instructor. Before this class start my technology knowledge was limited and I was hoping to learn more and organize my teaching methods with technology.
When we started to the class, I felt it was going to be very informative and excited. I have learned many useful things and I improved my teaching skills by using educational technology tools. All the projects that I did thought me many good things. I was making a lot of researches before doing my projects and it gave me more knowledge. We made a lot of projects (5 Technology Projects) and I learned a lot of educational subjects from each of them. I learned that how to use technology when I plan my lesson plans. And also I learned how to prepare a research paper and how to use it in real life. I believe I improved my technology skills with this Integrating Technology into Education class.
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Teaching and learning are two things that we cannot live with. People are learning to survive ,to have a better life, to be happy and also to get fun. As human we are so curious and starting to learn when our heart starts beating. Maybe our brain is not ready to understand the world around us when we are 3 months old in our mother womb. We started learning before we were born and we will continue learning until we close our eyes to this world. We don't learn with the same method as people. Each human has a unique technique to learn and understand things. It doesn't matter what technique we use to learn ,we learn things from the other people mostly. Our first teacher was our mothers and father came as a second teacher. we learned something from our neighbor ,from our friends,and from the world around us. It is not easy to live alone. we need the other people all the time. We eat together, we play together, we work together, we get fun together and we learn together. So we need people in our lives.
Traditional schools and virtual schools are two different concepts. I don't see virtual schools as a second school. I think they can be an alternative schools for students who cannot handle a regular school and cannot learn in a class environment. After we set up our character and our personality ,these kind of schools do not be harmful for us. However when we are young and at the beginning of our journey ,we need friends ,we need people to have a better social life. When we go to the traditional schools ,we do not learn only information and also we learn the life itself. There are teachers and friends around us to help us when we make mistakes or struggling with something. If a child is alone in front of a computer to make herself on himself ready for life , maybe he will have a good job but not a good life. Of course you can show me some people who had a virtual education and success. However it is not the proof that virtual education is better than traditional education. As educators we need to educate our students with different methods. All students must be motivated before we start teaching our curriculum. The hardest part of education is motivation of students. This example is the best for the motivation. Mr. John is a social studies teacher and he prepared his lesson according to curriculum. Everything is ready for the class. After he took the attendance, he was about to start the lesson and a student raised his hands to get permission to talk. The student watched the election program on the TV and he asked a question about the election. However the teacher prepared totally different lesson. Even the lesson is different; the teacher must stop teaching his lesson and start teaching the subject that was asked by the student. Mr. John needs to motivate the students before he starts teaching. So the student is already motivated. And he needs to start teaching this subject.
We can use a lot of different ways to motivate our students in the class. Not all games and the other things work to motivate the students in all classes. Every class has a different way to motivate the students. Games are very important to motivate the students. Games are not the goal just some tools. We are not trying to entertain our students. We are using the games to teach our subjects. And these games are tried and recommended by some experienced teacher to us. I have been teaching more than 15 years and I have been using these games and I saw that they work very well. Individualized Strategies: Individualized strategies are so important and beneficial for the students to become master on the subjects. Evert school must have a special education and ESL teacher. If we have some students who need special needs, we need to help them individually. These special teachers are testing the students and giving us the individualized strategies for each student. All teachers know that these strategies are very important and useful however it takes more time and special effort from the teachers. It is not easy to implements these steps on each special needs students. Reference: Moore, K.D. (2012) Effective Strategies for Teaching in K-8 Classrooms Sam Chaltain, 2014, Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice |
AuthorHello my name is Omer DOGAN. I started teaching about 15 years ago and I realized that I need to improve my teaching skills and also technology using skills too. This e-portfolio is going to change my organization skills and improve it. With his e-portfolio i will be more organized for all documents that I used for my master degree classes. The age is getting closer to the technology every day and students are using it all the time. I cannot stay an old fashion teacher or a classic one. ArchivesCategories |