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The Big Picture: Oregon Technology Standards

How would you explain the big picture of what these standards are trying to accomplish?

These standards are attempting to prepare students for the future. Technology has virtually changed the face of the planet. Communicating and collaborating with many people over great distances is possible now in ways that it never has been before. With the rise of technology comes the responsibility of digital citizenship. Empowering students with technology is a start, but teaching them how to be responsible and act in ethical ways in what is now a somewhat un-policed world, is a necessity. These standards are attempting to create students who are; well versed in technology, can access and utilize programs that will aid them in their education and lives, and act legally and ethically in an online world.

Describe some strategies you could implement at your grade level(s) in order to accomplish this huge task. Please relate your strategies/activities to some specific Standards.

One way I would help to meet these standards in my classes would be by using google docs for homework/assignments. Google docs allows for large amounts of collaboration and communication between students and their teachers. This could be a very user friendly way to provide feedback on math assignments, give clues for problems that students might not fully understand, and it’s fast and easy to use. I could also see myself using google docs for grade sheets or other student info. This would help me meet Standard 2 regarding “Communication and Collaboration” Before implementing any of this technology into my classroom I would set forth expectations for online behavior which would also help me to teach “Digital Citizenship”, meeting another of the standards.

What are some challenges?

Introducing technology into my classroom will have some challenges. To begin with, while technology is becoming more and more prevalent in our society, the fact of the matter is that there really is not a level playing field when it comes to access. Some students will have an advantage over others simply because they have more resources at home. While this is a potential challenge, it is not one that should exclude technology from our lessons.

Another potential challenge that I can see is simply in the teaching of digital citizenship. The internet has a lot of gray areas right now and students can have instant access to a variety of information that they should not be accessing. I am in full support of having digital citizenship as one of the standards, but I can see this being a constant struggle to implement. This just goes to show the importance of such a standard though.

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Critical Assessment

IPhoto

Heyo! This is a video that Mariah, Shannon and I made about IPhoto. Feel free to watch it multiple times. A sequel is in the works.

Iphoto is a very cool program. It could be useful in the classroom in a variety of ways. One of the best features of IPhoto is how easy it makes it to share photos. If a teacher wanted to organize photos and share them with a class for any reason, they could do it with a click of the mouse.

Another way Iphoto would be helpful in the classroom would be for slideshows. You can arrange you photos very easily and then create a slideshow from them simply by hitting the slideshow button.

The last way I could see Iphoto being useful in class is using the maps function. You can assign a location to any picture you've taken. By having pictures from various places around the world, a teacher could teach geography with visual aids using Iphoto.

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For this assignment I averaged the scores of the student on tests 6-10. I then found the standard deviation for each test. After that I found the average for the students who scored above the class average and created a graph representing the growth from test 6-10. The graph showed that for every test the scores of those who were scoring above the class average where growing. The growth was fairly constant with a little bit of a spike in the end. This graph shows that the teacher was doing a good job at reaching the students who were already high achievers. Those students continued to increase their scores over each of the last 5 tests. This graph doesn't show us who those individual students are, just that the average score of students scoring above the average continually grew over the course of the last 5 tests.

Yo! I'm back and better than ever. Scribblar and Dabbleboard are two applications that can be used in various ways in the classroom. Both applications are programs which enable multiple users to collaborate on visual projects. Users can work together in real time on a project. Both programs have chat features as well. I could see using these programs in an art class, to teach geometry in a math class, or for visual aids for projects in any given class. Gotta go, I'm gonna go get my Scribblar on!

ODE Assignment "Questions to consider"

1. How will this be useful (challenging high end learners)?

Reading about how to challenge TAG students was very interesting. I've wondered about this a fair amount recently because we do have at least one TAG student in my practicum class. I liked the idea of focusing more on higher-level learning skills in relation to Bloom's taxonomy. Analyzing the same content more critically. I also liked the idea of being familiar with content standards 1-3 grades ahead of the level I'm going to be teaching at. This will help me to scaffold TAG students learning and set them up for success in their future classes in addition to passing them in my class. I believe all children need to be challenged at school.

2. How will this resource help me identify state standards I must address (Oregon Standards Newspaper) ?

I was already fairly familiar with this website before doing this exercise. I've found that this page is a great resource for teachers. When I've looked through the curriculum given to me by my practicum teacher I've noticed that some of the standards are not clearly addressed in the curriculum I have. I'm not sure if that's just because they will be hit later on in the year or why. It's good to know all of the standards for that grade though. I can even see ways of integrating content standards into the curriculum that are not overtly stated right away. I would never have known to do that if I didn't know what the standards were though.