Ms. Holloway Third Grade Superstars

Kaia's World

I was surprise that this blog actually started because of a book titled The Child in the Woods. A father trying to reconnect his daughter, Kaia, to the world around her. Little did he know, that he was connecting her not only to her surrounding, but to the entire world. A school in Missouri was reviewing Kaia's world and seeing things from a three year old perspective of the world around her.

Technology is truly changing learning. A blog allowed these kids to connect to Douha the capital of Qatar. On the Persian Gulf next to Bahrain and Dubai. I was able to look up the location using google. I honestly never knew it existed until today. That's what technology allowed me to do today. I do not have map and the library is closed on Sundays. Thank you Google.

These kids are learning not from textbooks but from technology. It opened up a new world for them. They were even able to talked with Kaia's father using Skype. These kids were curious about Kaia's life. They were engaging in a activity that involved discovering the outdoors, learning about other countries and cultures. The knowledge that they acquired from this blogged is not something written in a textbook. It was certainly not in any of my textbooks from school. Did I mention I never heard of Douha before today. See that wasn't in my textbook.

This has open my eyes to a new way of learning. There is no doubt that technology is changing everyday. Therefore, it is sure to have a huge impact on education and the way students are learning. Students are able to explore the entire world. There are no limitation. Textbooks provide the bare minimal ,if you ask me. But technology is like the ocean. It is wide, deep, vast, enormous, there is no end.

New Media Literacy Project

New Media Literacy Project is allowing student to become better thinkers. The allow give the challenge to distinguish between gossip, opinion, and raw messages. They given the opportunity to identify the facts that will allow to become informed citizens and consumers in society. With so much information available from the web, it important for students to develop critical thinking skills.

The students will become journalist, and historian. The will engaging in several different education experience from one project. They will be able to take information and decide what they consider to be of importance.

New Media Literacies

New Media Literacies skills are needed by everyone. These skills are certainly used are on daily basis in every faucet of life. The video is applying using these skills in regards to technology. Trans media navigation, simulation, judgement, and visualization are certainly used for technology. Navigating the internet is certainly a new skill for the 21st century. These are certainly skills that we all have acquired within the last 10 years. The simulation and visualzataion skills are certainly skills that are should be applied to new media literacies skills. We are learning them as we navigate the web.

Judgement skills should be used by everyone. Even though at times, some people tend not to exercises their best judgement. I certainly feel that this is not a new skill for the 21st century. I do not possess all of these skills. Ask me to negotiate. I have never being a good negotiator. And I am not trying to learn. I am mother and a student. Therefore, I am always multitasking.

I am positive that I will acquire these skills as I have a need for them. As a future educator, I know I will be using all of these skills. I will be performing in front of a classroom and use judgement everyday. I will negotiates with students so that they strive for excellence. There will be games that I will certainly love to play. No, doubt I will be multitasking on everyday. That's what teachers do best.

Networked Student

I am that networked student. I am still in the process of developing my PLN. I am navigating my way through all these different sites. I learning about blogging, podcasting, itunes, and other sites. Learning has truly changes compared to 10 years ago. My computer class ten years ago required a book and a floppy disc. There was no skpe, google, itunes, podcast, and there were certainly no internet to search.

I have a lot of learning ahead of me. I am not prepared to be a teacher of a networked student. I can barely keep up with my EDM 310 class. I am learning something new every week. Somebody please enlighten me on Skpe, Delicious, and wiki. My brain is in technology overload. There is no book required for this class, you would think that would make it easy. Yeah right. There is more to learn without a book. The web has more info than any book can ever capture. I would rather read a book. The learning never stops.

I must admit, this class is preparing me to teach that future networked student. I have become aware of many things from this class. I will be able to guide my students as they retrieve various information from the web. They will be able to differentiate what's a reliable source. This will allow them build on their learning process. They will make contacts with various people around world that will be useful to them for years to come.

This is How We Dream Parts 1 and 2

Richard Miller says writing in the culture has changed. And that we are living in the greatest change in human communication. I can certainly agree with that. The internet definitely changed the research process. Richard Miller stated that you can conduct research without ever stepping inside of a library. The information is available via the world wide web. Does the library still exist? Will tomorrow students every meet the local librarian? I think not. Like Miller stated pencil, paper, library have certainly being replaced with laptop and the desktop. Research can be conducted from any library in the world.

The old method of research has faded away with technology. What ever happened to checking out books, clipping newspaper articles, the microfiche machine. That machine took forever to look up magazine and newspaper articles. Technology is truly heaven sent.

I am new to this multimedia writing process. I will be honest and say I am not prepared to write in multimedia as of today. There is so much to learn. You can add video and sound to documents. Let me just type the document. I will try to add video and sound later.

Today's students are so technology literate that I know for fact that they will probably have this mastered. I will be learning from them. I try to stay ahead of this tech thing but I know there are things that still elude me. I would love to apply multimedia in the classroom. Being that it can be a collaborative project, the students can engage in working with students around the world. This will truly be an excellent learning tool in the classroom.

IPods

I thought iPods were used for downloading music. But then again, I have been wrong before. You can also use your iPod as a hard disk to store files, back up your work, or transfer files from one computer to another. iPod is simply a tiny storage device with a screen, audio hardware, and a special case. Standard iPods use miniature hard drives, while iPod shuffles use memory chips. Both are as good at storing data as they are at storing music



Teachers are now using iPod's in place of traditional cassette or CD listening centers.I don't even know if they still make cassettes players and in about another years Cd's will be obsolete as well. You can easily record your own voice reading the stories in digital audio format therefore any book can become a part of your iPod listening center.

http://www.pre-kpages.com/ipods.html



Duke University gave each of its 1,650 incoming freshmen a free iPod in fall 04 as part of an initiative to foster innovative uses of technology in the classroom. My school never gave a free pencil, book, paper, or anything. South its time to play catchup. Ipods are now being used inside the classroom. The device can store up to 10,000 songs on their hard drive. That's more CDs than I can every possible think about owning. I not sure if I could find that many song to download.


Students were able to use the device to download course content, record lectures, foreign language lessons, audio books will be able to use the devices to download course content, foreign language lessons, and audio books . I need to get me one of these things. I did not know it could do all of this. It would make my learning experience so much better.



Other sites that are helpful with the ipod usage are as follow:

http://www.uberreview.com/toptenipoduses.html

http://kottke.org/plus/50-ways-ipod/

i Tunes University

I think I have used i tunes once and that was just for listening to music. So other than that, I know nothing about the uses of i tunes. I will admit until now, I was illiterate as far i tunes is concern. So will i tune university accept me as student? I see that it can be used for many things in classroom and outside of the classroom. Music is what I have always associate with i tunes, but there are other uses for i tunes. I must do better with all this new technology. How will I ever keep up?

This site will be useful for me as a student and as an educator. There are lectures that I can for further education resources. The site is free and can be used by anyone. I can find virtually every subjects on itunes. I can view lectures from other university and find resources that will help me become a better educator inside the classroom.

These are specific links that can used.

Teaching and Education under 'Categories'2)
Colleges and Universities, K-12 under 'Find Education Providers'

Dr. Christie's Site

Dr. Christie's Site is extremely informative for an future educator as myself. Her main focus is the use of technology in the classroom. With over forty years of experience, she has certainly experience the technology explosion in the classroom. This site is great resources for educators using technology in the classroom.

The Internet has changed the lives of many and it certainly is changing the way students are being taught in the classrooms. Dr. Christie's guide for web searching and researching is a valuable tool that can be used in the classroom. It has excellent resource for online tools for teachers as well as students. Dr.Christie's give excellent sites that can utilize in the classroom from K-12.

These are some the links that were listed at Dr.Christie's Web Site.

http://ivyjoy.com/coloring/search.html
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/students/#
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm

With the ever increasing budget cuts, the web can be used for virtual field trips in classroom. This is an excellent resource for the teacher. You never have to leave the classroom. The simulations allow the kids to participate in a fun activity while learning at the same time.

This site is one that I will be sure to visit again in the future.