ISTE/NET Standards

One of the best things about having accrued years is the treasure trove of experience I can draw on to engage, motivate, challenge, and prompt my students. The standards call for a higher level of teacher-student interaction and newly minted older teachers have experienced more living and thus have a well of life resources and understanding to draw from that younger teachers do not and cannot have. Thus, the less life-experienced teacher is compelled to approach the standards from a more theoretical and training-based perspective. To this, the more life-experienced teacher brings an additional set of tools to work with.

Education 2.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&feature=player_embedded

Historically, technology has always outpaced mankind's ability to make the best use of the technology. Take Einstein's theory of relativity and the nuclear bomb. The awesome power of nuclear energy was not used for generating energy to benefit mankind but to destroy mankind. Human nature will never be able to keep pace with the rapidity of technological progress because there are a multiplicity of innovations but only one human race. The key is management of technology rather than technology managing us. As the PPT video said, the PPT is the assistant to the presenter. Yet the presenter must have the wisdom and skill to ensure that the PPT remains the assistant and not the presenter.

After all we wouldn't want to have the unintended consequences of technological innovation blow up in our face; would we?

Storytelling with FREE Bookpublishing

I think creating one's own book is a very useful teaching technique to draw students out of his ir her shell. The published 'book' is a sign if the person's existence and worth.

Google Tools

I tried the book and finance tools and liked them both. I would use this resource again once I have more time to explore the tools.

Course learning gainings and personal and professional growth.

I enjoyed learning of the multiplicity of web 2.0 links because I love to gain new knowledge. This new digital knowledge has expanded my thinking in that I have numerous new resources that I can use to enhance my ability to communicate across a broad cross section of students and people. The new knowledge also provides me with valuable new resources that I can use in my professional career as a communicator and educator of various market segments and interest groups in order to effect positive systems changes.
The course could probably span two semester because of the volume of information presented. That volume of new information raised the pressure to accomplish assignments and potentially negatively impacted grade performance. I prefer that voluminous information is presented at an appropriate pace almost always. I found that voluminous information was presented at an appropriate pace sometimes.
Peace to all.

schoolology

The schoolology site says I need an access code given by the teacher in order to sign up. I did not see an access code in the link for schoolology so I could not sign up, try it, and reflect in my blog. I am reflecting on trying it and the site not working.

Engrade assignment

a. I like all the features and would immediately use this resource for classroom management. The site could always be improved with more consumer friendly features including easy-to-read font styles and sizes. A number of the feature pages have a lot of white space that could be used to enhance the page.

b. Enhancements should include student differentiated instruction profiles and needs. Accommodations for special needs students could be included. Reminders of future events and correlations between pages would be helpful to build a comprehensive picture of the class environment.

c. Engrade would be very useful for classroom teachers because it provides ready-made templates and tools for individualized and differentiated assessment, instruction, and evaluation of students.

d. I think parents would love this software because it resembles the traditional report card but much more enhanced. This product can provide parents with assessment, instruction, and evaluation data that will allow the parents to follow their child’s progress very closely. This access to information will allow the parent to participate in the child’s progress more practically.

mario

                                                    

Matrix re-sized

Better.




Mr. Cipollone

Engrade matrix

While not a large class, the students get above average individual attention. Gregory has moved his grade to 70 from a previous performance of 65.

Mr. Cipollone (Pronounced: Chip-alone-eeeeee)


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