Blog #7

What is media literacy and why is it important?

This week we read and learned about media literacy. What is media literacy? It is the ability to both read and write visual information, the ablity to learn visually to think and solve problems in the visual domain(http://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/MEDLIT-excerpt.pdf). The reading that we were given this week gave examples of reading pictures. Through the pictures one might see something and have a totally different perspective of what the picture is really about. Children of the future are already expose to technology. Teachers can help students learn how to use media literacy in a smart, safe, and healthy environment. Teachers can help students by guiding them how to learn visually and thing and solve problems.
With the ever growing world of technology it is important that teachers prepare themselves for the changes. It is important to grow as technology also grows and being aware and understanding of how all people learn differently. So I conclude that media literacy is important because with so many children now a days learning from the screen, it is important to help them visually see more than one side.


Check out these links:

http://www.toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/families/media/whyimportant.aspx

http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-media-literacy-definition-importance-examples.html

https://thebluereview.org/teaching-media-literacy/

Review of a Web 2.0 Tool (Affordances/Constraints/Examples)

What the heck is Web 2.0 Tool?
This week we learned about Web 2.0 Tool. Have you ever wonder with this ever growing of technology what kind of tools you could use to help students and teacher with learning? Let's face the facts students are learning through screen, and teachers have to know figure out which what to use and how they can use it to be successful in the classroom.
The Family Economics & Financial Education (FEFE) helps address the problem of teachers looking for tools and guides them to help address the challenge by providing educator-tested, technology integration resources applicable to any career and technical education classroom https://d2l.nl.edu/d2l/le/content/59703/viewContent/1874181/View.
I believe this is a big help to teachers because as a lot of teachers know there is little time and very little resource in the general population of the teaching world. Having web tool will help save time and give you more time with helping students.
An example of affordances web 2.0 is:















An example of constraints web 2.0 is:








Check out these links:

http://takechargetoday.arizona.edu/

http://www.edudemic.com/best-web-tools/

http://www.classroom20.com/

Blog #4-How would you use the concept of flipped classrooms in your teaching?

This week we learned how the concept of flipped classrooms in teaching could actually be a good thing. I don't know what a whole lot about a flipped classroom but I surfed the web for some form of answer. From my understand a flip classroom is a classroom that is half lecture half technology. How cool is that?!
No more sitting around waiting days to find answers, when you could look it up on the web. With this new way of schooling this teaching approach could really help students. Students will be able to learn at a their own speed, work on their own, work among their peer, and parents can also follow along and see what their child is doing.
Who knows they may even want to go to school and learn! Teachers also benefit from flipped classroom. Teachers are able to facilitate students learning, be able to team students up together, monitor students learning, teachers are also able to use education and instructed video to their student's.
 



3 live links:


https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7081.pdf


http://flippedclassroom.org/


http://educationnext.org/the-flipped-classroom/

would

you use the concept of flipped

classrooms in your teaching?

What are some important best practices for technology in education?

This week we learned about some of the important best practices for technology in education.
Why use technology in the classroom and why is it important to use the best practices?
Technology is growing everyday and people around the world is using this to help advance their education. It is best to use best practice because it will help, "make sense of the information and to aid identification of their important technological components and their potential effectiveness within education both now and in the future" (White Paper Contact: Charles Fadel cfadel@Cisco.com Prepared by FutureLab, Best Practices in Education Technology).
Finding and doing case studies will help grow and understand what works and what doesn't work. By conducting case studies they were to summarize some of the trends for best practices for technology in education. There are five trends that they are able to conclude and are as followed:

• New structures and funding model
• The relationships among teachers, pupils, and parents
• The relationships among education, technology, and innovation
• More sophisticated blended approaches to learning
• More sophisticated forms of assessment and evaluation

After reading the article, "Best Practices in Education Technology" I have also come to learn  culture, relationships, and approach plays a big role. I find this very interesting because if you think about it these three things normally play a big role in everything we do.
My children are growing up against technology in the classroom. To me they are very tech savvy and I love the fact that they can tech me things that I don't know or understand.



Here are 3 live links, Check it out:


https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching-resources/technology-teaching/technology-best-practices
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/solutions/industries/docs/education/edu_tech_best_practices_wp.pdf
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2011/11/5-best-practices-classroom-technology-implementation