Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies

Children are learning about spiders and what the teacher does to use technology

audio/visual resources this is competency number 10.

Taking picture with digital camera is number 4.

Using a map they learn more about the different types of spiders. Compare spiders between virginia and Missouri. use the internet to communicate back and forth. this uses another number using internet sources. set up a spider website where both schools put up pictures and facts about the spiders. learn the name of baby spiders from the other teacher in Missouri. Cool project.

Technology in the Classroom video.

First question
what are words that remind you of spring?

• She plays instrumental music "Spring" from the four seasons
• wind blowing through trees, picnic, picking flowers,
  

Keep doing this for all the seasons

she then moved to KWL chart (know, wonder, and learned)
Then watch a movie.

She gives them a cut out map of Missouri. explain the different regions in Missouri.
www. woldclimate.com and find the average temp for the 5 cities they put on the map.

Work with a partner to find the average temp for all the seasons for each of the 5 cities.

After they find all the information they try to answer the questions from the wonder part of their chart.

objectives

• learn about the seasons
  
• why they happen
  
• temperature of Missouri.
• scientific method.
• learn about the KWL chart.
  

She ends with a reflection to evaluate the students and see what they learned.

(missing information. started notes late)

Basic Assessment Concepts

Assessment contains errors

• is it valid?
  

Good assessments enhances instruction

• aren't just measures of the students but measures the teacher also.
• if everyone misses a question, something you did wrong as a teacher.

Good assessments are valid

• they measure what they are supposed to measure.
  

Good assessment is fair and ethical

• Problem with tests is fair and ethical
  
• ex. if the student is coming from a poor background (not a lot of money), what color is a banana, but if you are poor you have brown bananas. so they have to try to make them unbiased.

Good assessment is efficient and feasible

• is it efficient and feasible? tests take up valuable time.
  

Good assessments use multiple methods

• Labs use whatever they are being tested on... rocks and minerals they will get rocks and minerals in their exam.
  
• use them all through out the unit, not just at the end
• formative- anytime during the unit.
  
• summative- at the end

Good assessment appropriately incorporates technology

• everything is technology.
  
• woah the thermos! It's amazing

What is most essential about assessment understands how general, fundamental assessment principles and ideas can be used to enhance student learning and teacher effectiveness.

assessment guides instruction.

what is an interview

What is an interview. an inverview is a conversation with someone from whom information is being sought.

Showing children what an interview is. Ask the children to watch a video and ask what they noticed she did in the interview:
Ask if it was ok to interview him
Tell him what it's about
Teaching the children how to use a digital camera.

1. have safe-guard around neck
2. find good center
3. putting disk in and out

photo shop program

1. how do you crop
2. how to use it in general

Listen to interview and write about it. Use notes to write an informative paragraph

1. Find ways to make it more interesting.
   
2. answer questions on a paper. She must have questions to make sure they are writing their paper well. they answer yes or no.
   

Type up their paper using microsoft word.

1. teaching how to use the general parts of microsoft word. how to go back and change something for example.
   
2. teaching good ways to write. Good grammer.
   

This is to teach professionalism
how to use devices like cameras, word processing, picture editing.

6th grade news broadcast

Connections, informal learning, direct experience, reflection, compelling situation, frequent feedback, and enjoyable setting. More information on this can be found in the technology as facilitator of quality education model.

Active Involvement

6th grade creates daily news broadcast. One student teaches another. They gain direct experience by learning different things like how to use a digital camera. They shoot and edit video using editing software. Students teach other students about video-editing software. They let the other student do it. Learning how to teach one another, their peers.

The Poor Scholar's Soliloquy

Very good article. The boy can't necessarily remember facts about presidents or states, he might not get why it's important to do math problems that have no relevance to his life, but he has a lot of common sense and is obviously smart besides those things. Look at the math problem that they talked about, he has to be pretty smart and think more abstract if he realized in the math problem they didn't say how the telephone pole landed. Most students would think, "ok, I add then subtract, not a problem." They wouldn't think twice about it. He can do the problems, he just doesn't see why he should. Why measure a road with a telephone pole. He can relate and see the relevance when adding miles or telling a farmer how much their animal stock cost, other than that, why worry about it. It seems that if it doesn't affect him or someone else, he doesn't want to do it. He spent hours after school trying to learn the constitution because he wanted to be a good citizen, but what he really wanted to do was help clean up a playground for other children. He thinks he's not smart because he does badly in school, he has bad grades, and the teachers don't support him. For example the diesel experiment in class, the teacher didn't even give him a chance. They judged him before he even spoke. Just because a students does badly on tests, doesn't mean he isn't intelligent! The problems in this article are still the same as now; the idea is still useful even though this is an older article. The article is from the 1940s. It is timeless.

This is a very important article to keep in mind because this is something that happens all the time. A student might be able to do the work but doesn't want to, doesn't see relevance in doing it. Maybe it's just not their subject! I think in this article, he would excel in other shop classes like automotive or something along those lines. Now a days i don't think he should quit school because there isn't as many opportunities to do well without a diploma. In the 1940s there were a lot more jobs available to do with out a high school diploma.