Digital Post L. Chapter 12.

Chapter twelve is all about integrating technology and creating change as teacher leaders. The book defines inclusion as computers and information technologies that are mainly used for transferring information and practicing skills.  This is not something that is used on a daily basis, and is something that would be scheduled maybe once a week for a certain amount of time. Infusion is technically the opposite, computers and other informational technologies are used more often in the classroom, with teaching and learning in all grade levels. The range of computers that can either be in a classroom are a couple to just one. Sine this is more of a day-to-day thing, the hope is that the students will learn how to search things for research, use word processing and game-based learning activities. Overall the teacher has the control over to choose how much to incorporate technology and how it will be used in the classroom.




Cooperative learning and group-work, this is something that i've learned a lot about through this course. And with technology it is made even easier! This past week in we were asked to make lesson plans and in my group we were all very busy and were only able to meet twice. Since we were limited with the amount of times we could meet we connected and worked on the project cooperatively through GoogleDocs. This is a site where we all share the same word document on different devices, this way we could all work on the project at our own times and also be able to see what the other members of the group are doing, or have done. 

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Digital Post K. Chapter 4.

Chapter four was about designing lessons and developing curriculum with technology. At the very beginning it give a great example of how technology can help in just picking out a topic to teach, the internet give a large selection of curriculum resources and information. From internet search engines to resources and information, electronic databases, online encyclopedias, blogs, and wikis. These are great ways to tie technology into teaching, and allows the students to have gain great information.

Electronic grading software is becoming more and more popular in our world today. This system is for virtual record-keeping, with this a teacher can calculate and record the student grades all on the computer. The book provides some good advantages to this system, such as, the efficiency to calculate and store numerous amounts of students work. Electronic grading also comes in handy when you don't have a lot of time, I can only imagine the time crunch a teacher would have, this is why this system would be beneficial to a teacher, it is a very easy and quick way of storing and grading the work the students have done. However, with every good thing there are some cons, like it talks about in the book " the academic performance of young learners is more nuanced than test assessments fully measure." (2013, Maloy) This is the main reason i'm against electronic grading systems, because I want to teach at a elementary level, this system would not be something I would use on a daily basis. If my students were to take a test, work hard to learn about the required information, I would feel like there was a responsibility to me as a teacher to go through their work and grade it myself. When doing so, If a student were to get something so wrong and be totally off track, instead of just grading it wrong, you could go over that problem with the student, see where they got confused and help them get through it.


Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Blog Post J. Chapter 11.

Chapter eleven introduced lots of new ideas to me, one I found to be very interesting "are places where students and teachers together make substantive decisions about important aspects of educational operations, from the academic curriculum to school climate and rules."(Maloy, 2013) This is called a democratic schools and classrooms. If teachers were to allow the students the decision of making the calls in the classroom there would be a lot more free time and less time actually learning. For this reason I think that this concept is really cool. The curriculum, and what is being taught is still the job of the teacher, however, how the materiel is going to be taught will be decided by the classroom " through honest dialogue, debate, and discussion making between students and teacher." (Maloy, 2013)


PowToon Digital Portfolios Pros & Cons 

Another great thing I took from chapter eleven is student participation systems. This is a wireless tool that allows interactive learning benefit for teachers and students. After my reeding I cant help but think its something like KaHoot.it where the students have to answer the questions that are being asked on the big screen on their own computer or tablet. The only difference is with the student participation systems, you have an actually clicker or "remote". I think that this idea is a great to get the students to think and play together as a classroom.


Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

 Montgomery, Mary Audrey. "Digital Portfolios." Digital Portfolios Pros & Cons. 4 Nov. 2015. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.