Respond to Day 2 Blog Prompt:
What have you learned about how technology may be used to support and assess student learning? What have you accomplished through this training so far?
If time permits, review the blogs of your colleagues. What themes run through their reflections?
I'm a process person and I tend to teach process rather than technology tools. This workshop works for me because I see the process and have been given add'l tools to help make the teaching and learning of that process more active.
ReplyDeleteI intended from the beginning to use one of these courses as template for my students to write the unit they will use to teach in the summer internship. The big issue for me now is, which one? I will need to spend some time going through the programs to see which one would fit my students. It needs to be clean and easy to follow to write a unit with lessons.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading literature about engagement of students. It is great to see these thinking tools because they are engaging along with making students think. I will be using these tools in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that it is of utmost importance to teach teachers how to utilize these types of tools to engage students to facilitate student learning. I have learned ways that I can introduce the integration of technology to preservice teachers without worrying about their technological expertise. The tools are easy to learn even if a few mistakes are made in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI see my colleagues are talking about process, templates, and engagement.
I have learned that I can be creative in the way I use the thinking with technology tools in my courses. I so far succeeded in implementing the visual ranking, seeing reason, and showing evidence tools in one of my course modules. I see also an implemention in a couple of modules. I will add the unit plan and assessment plan templates to my methods course but always am flexible regarding the requirements of the school districts. Thus, good impression so far.
ReplyDeleteThe Visual Ranking tool works best for me. In fact, I have used a version of this activity for years. In my observation, ranking or prioritizing components of subject matter is a fantastic way to start a lesson because it elicits great metacognitive conversation... and a meaningful starting point for students.
ReplyDeleteWhen we discussed the three tools yesterday, I was uncertain about how I might use them in a course. After today's presentation and discussions, I was able to see how and where I will use them in my courses this semester. Specifically, in a doc seminar on college teaching, my plan is to have students complete a Visual Ranking Tool on a list that I generated of qualities of an excellent college professor. The seminar only has six students, so instead of teams, I plan to utilize a perspective-taking approach where I will have each individual student assigned a role (e.g., untenured faculty member, a senior faculty member serving on the College T&P committee, a college administrator, a college student, parent of a college student, etc). Each student will rank the qualities from their assigned perspective.
ReplyDeleteI expect(hope, really) that this will spark an interesting discussion about college teaching and in a sense serve to establish a baseline of perspectives before getting into the seminar. I think it would be interesting to complete it at the end of the course. The best thing about today: I created/completed a course wiki and a course blog, and also developed a Showing Evidence Tool that I believe will spark a very interesting discussion on an important issue in severe disabilities.