Blog Post 10
I think that the use of data collection, analysis, and organizing this information on Excel will all be useful skills that I will now have for my hopeful future as a teacher. Collecting data in ways such as the surveys that we did in this course will be very helpful. I think I will be able to use this as a way to collect information on my students, as I wish to teach high school or college, as well as use it as a fun way to test knowledge on topics before teaching it, such as by creating non-graded quizzes to complete before class. I have a professor now who using the submission of surveys on Qualtrics to take attendance for class, but also has questions regarding information from the lesson to further test knowledge as well, and considering that she is my history professor and that it what I want to teach, it gives me a good idea for the usage in the future. For using excel, I believe that the skills I will acquire from the lesson today on further operation of Excel, will help teach me vital skills. I plan to be able to use this program to organize grades, keep track of attendance if there is no better option, or keep records of information that I gather throughout the year.
Throughout the semester, being able to view the blog posts of other students has been a really useful way to make sure that I am on track, was a way to see new perspectives on certain topics, as well as feed my curiosity and be able to learn completely new information regarding educational technology. When it comes to specific topics, I think the most interesting cases are when we, the students, are studying material from the textbook, and have to give our opinion on the way a method is being used or the use of different technological mediums in the classroom, because it is interesting to see how different people have different view points. For example, the "flipped classroom" method that we learned about seemed that it would be extremely useful and a very efficient way to spend time using technology, however, it was interesting that others may not agree. When learning about material through the textbook, it feels like factual information, but the various different opinions on that same material makes leaning seem more expansive and more interesting to me.
A technology-related skill that I would want to learn next is perhaps how to create a lesson plan, maybe through an extended project, where the students can incorporate new softwares and skills as they learn them throughout the year. This way, we are able to see, in real-life occasion, how a teach can create an entire lesson plan using a PowerPoint, an activity software, websites, blogging, or whatever other programs seem fit to use for that specific lesson. I feel like that would be a good way to not only test our knowledge on the different forms of technology that we are taught to use during the year, but would also serve as good practice on a vital skill that all of us who are studying to be teachers would need to have.
Throughout the semester, being able to view the blog posts of other students has been a really useful way to make sure that I am on track, was a way to see new perspectives on certain topics, as well as feed my curiosity and be able to learn completely new information regarding educational technology. When it comes to specific topics, I think the most interesting cases are when we, the students, are studying material from the textbook, and have to give our opinion on the way a method is being used or the use of different technological mediums in the classroom, because it is interesting to see how different people have different view points. For example, the "flipped classroom" method that we learned about seemed that it would be extremely useful and a very efficient way to spend time using technology, however, it was interesting that others may not agree. When learning about material through the textbook, it feels like factual information, but the various different opinions on that same material makes leaning seem more expansive and more interesting to me.
A technology-related skill that I would want to learn next is perhaps how to create a lesson plan, maybe through an extended project, where the students can incorporate new softwares and skills as they learn them throughout the year. This way, we are able to see, in real-life occasion, how a teach can create an entire lesson plan using a PowerPoint, an activity software, websites, blogging, or whatever other programs seem fit to use for that specific lesson. I feel like that would be a good way to not only test our knowledge on the different forms of technology that we are taught to use during the year, but would also serve as good practice on a vital skill that all of us who are studying to be teachers would need to have.
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