I really enjoyed watching this video presentation in class this afternoon. It had really good humor, along with good music and editing. The best thing about it, was that it really covered alot of areas in with using internet in education. I think the part on "Copy and Paste" was really bang on. Thats exactly what students do now a days, and the worst part about that is that students really think the information is accurate.
its our job as educators to teach them the importance of how its not allowed to use people's ideas or get information from resources and not source them. Teaching them proper research ettiquette is very important, and something alot of university students struggle with, yet along middle years/high school kids. The more we can teach them about developing original ideas, and if they use someone else's information to simply "source" it from where they got it. this way they taken the time to at least show the teacher they are not taking credit for some information, rather just sourcing the original creator.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
WBC- Web Based Courses- Tech Task
I looked at a grade 11 Physical Education/Health Education course. It was really neat how "health" or P.E content was taught through the web. Physical activity is imporatant, but it is very important to have knowledge about active healthy lifestyles. The first part of the course was talking about active healthy lifestyles.
Some of the first lessons were
- Lesson 1: Personal Physical Activity Inventory
- Lesson 2: Managing Risks Related to Physical Activity
- Lesson 3: Implementing the Safety and Physical Activity Plan
Alot of students growing up do not understand the term "healthy" and if they do, they dont know how to live a health lifestyle. Alot of children do not have "healthy" role models in their life, so as a P.E teacher we need give them as much information about what it takes to be healthy, and the importance of balance & maintenance.
Physical activity will create an increase in energy and an overall "good" feeling. Therefore having web case courses full of content and very useful strategies is a very good idea! I could definitely use a web based course like this.
Tech Task-Internet making us DUMBER?
The whole internet making you dumber article, was really quiet interesting. And i totally can see their point of view. Today Blair, and I were talking about all the blogging and neat things we have been learning in the Internet for Educators class, and he replied, yah i agree its a good thing, however everytime i go on their to blog I keep getting distracted and side tracked as to what I was there in the first place.
The internet is a very useful tool, and I can really see how it makes us "dumber", but maybe dumber isn't the best word for it, maybe it should be called how internet makes us "lazy". We as a society expect everything quicker, faster and better. The internet has a HUGE role in that "motto". I know personally when im trying to download, or upload, if it takes longer than 2 minutes im cursing and totally frustrated. Just think back to dial up haha, we managed, but with high speed internet everything is a "blink" away, and i think its fair to say that society has become dependent on that speed of accessibility.
Thats how I can i relate to how we stopped thinking indepth, rather just kinda go with the flow. For example, some of the projects we need to in classes now a day take probably an 1/8th of the time, projects 10 years ago did. I know personally, i have become a little to much of a procastotantor mainly because I know once i get started on a task, its really not going to take me long, and to top it off, I will not think twice about it. Did I really use indepth adequate thinking, not at all.
Nate
Internet for Educators Presentation
Link-For google DOC
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPrHlS78kVbJ9xA54i6yqIBOcyKMMwgMX5XIpJirSHE/edit?hl=en#
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPrHlS78kVbJ9xA54i6yqIBOcyKMMwgMX5XIpJirSHE/edit?hl=en#
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Handheld Devices in Education
The release of the iPad has really showed the education world a new way of learning. Not only is the iPad amazing with its mobility, accessibility, effeiciency and affordability, but THOUSANDS of useful applications that can make a teacher be in Heaven!
I really think mobile devices have a significant place in the classroom. I think it makes learning way more interactive and interesting for the students, and the teacher. If the school had enough funding, and could afford a few iPads, iPods, teachers could make interesting lessons and use unique applications to teach learning outcomes. iPad has numerous mathematical applications that would be very good for teaching math, exspecially at the early years level. With using the iPad for learning any subject matter, you incorporate so many different types of multiple intelligences that will allow the learner to get the most out of their learning.
However, with handheld devices being a unique and overall interesting way of learning, I think there are some draw backs. Obviously the first one that comes to mind is FUNDING. How would you be able to provide devices for 20 students? I think overtime educational funding will change, because they are going to realize just how important technology in the classroom is, but reality is thats going to take more than a few years. So as sweet as devices sound in the classroom, reality is you may only be able to have 2 or 3 right now. The next draw back i think would be children taking advantage of the devices and not really doing what they are supposed to do. it's easy for children who are not interested in the topic to use the device to play games, go online or not pay attention. Therefore, I think proper ettiquette of devices and respect of technology would need to be taught.
I really think mobile devices have a significant place in the classroom. I think it makes learning way more interactive and interesting for the students, and the teacher. If the school had enough funding, and could afford a few iPads, iPods, teachers could make interesting lessons and use unique applications to teach learning outcomes. iPad has numerous mathematical applications that would be very good for teaching math, exspecially at the early years level. With using the iPad for learning any subject matter, you incorporate so many different types of multiple intelligences that will allow the learner to get the most out of their learning.
However, with handheld devices being a unique and overall interesting way of learning, I think there are some draw backs. Obviously the first one that comes to mind is FUNDING. How would you be able to provide devices for 20 students? I think overtime educational funding will change, because they are going to realize just how important technology in the classroom is, but reality is thats going to take more than a few years. So as sweet as devices sound in the classroom, reality is you may only be able to have 2 or 3 right now. The next draw back i think would be children taking advantage of the devices and not really doing what they are supposed to do. it's easy for children who are not interested in the topic to use the device to play games, go online or not pay attention. Therefore, I think proper ettiquette of devices and respect of technology would need to be taught.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sharing: The Moral Imperative
I like this presentation on the aspect of sharing.
Sharing to me is one of the most useful "strategies" or resources that a teacher could use. I feel that as Educators we need to allow other's to use our own ideas, and knowledge. If we can share information through technology with teacher's close and far, we better ourselves as people, teachers, and the children are learning alot more. If teacher's share resources, then I think its fair to say that students will share ideas and information as well. Sharing makes daily activities, tasks, and duties much easier to accomplish if you are able to generate your own thoughts and opinons but use someone else's ideas to create another viewpoint. I am not talking about copying other peoples work simply because you are to lazy to do it, but making an actual effort to provide information and using other's ideas to create your own thoughts and opinions.
That was a pretty interesting post by George in this video about sharing, where he talked about their "identity" assembly and how that little girl did her whole display board on Turettes and how George ended up blogging about it because he was really touched and had an emotional reaction to it. The neat thing about that was that a school in texas was insipired by it as well, because George decided to share this information through a BLOG.
This is very touching and interesting, you really never know who is looking at what you are posting online, but their is definitely alot of advantages that can come from it. You may be helping another teacher or classroom out by posting strategies or assignments/classroom activities on your blog.
Sharing to me is one of the most useful "strategies" or resources that a teacher could use. I feel that as Educators we need to allow other's to use our own ideas, and knowledge. If we can share information through technology with teacher's close and far, we better ourselves as people, teachers, and the children are learning alot more. If teacher's share resources, then I think its fair to say that students will share ideas and information as well. Sharing makes daily activities, tasks, and duties much easier to accomplish if you are able to generate your own thoughts and opinons but use someone else's ideas to create another viewpoint. I am not talking about copying other peoples work simply because you are to lazy to do it, but making an actual effort to provide information and using other's ideas to create your own thoughts and opinions.
That was a pretty interesting post by George in this video about sharing, where he talked about their "identity" assembly and how that little girl did her whole display board on Turettes and how George ended up blogging about it because he was really touched and had an emotional reaction to it. The neat thing about that was that a school in texas was insipired by it as well, because George decided to share this information through a BLOG.
This is very touching and interesting, you really never know who is looking at what you are posting online, but their is definitely alot of advantages that can come from it. You may be helping another teacher or classroom out by posting strategies or assignments/classroom activities on your blog.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
George Couros Presentation-Unintended Benefits
The skype conference George gave us on tuesday, february 8th was very impressive. He is a very knowledgeable person and his passion for learning and technology is very recognizable.
I was blown away with how he was talking about students in his school in grade 3 were using blogs as a way of learning from each other and reflecting about what they had learned. That impressed me alot. Blogging is a very unique way of sharing information, thoughts and ideas, I think every classroom teacher should definitely include them in their classes.
What I thought was very interesting is that the world is a ever changing place, so why aren't the schools? He said he wanted his school to be the best school, and by the sounds of the way he incorporates technology in the classroom, he is well ahead of others. I really agree with that statement if the world is based around technology, then why aren't we doing this in schools? No wonder kids are getting bored by reading a text book, they go home in the evening and do everything online or on a computer, go to school and is forced to read a 15 year old book. We as teacher's need to get with the "times" and start using every possible resource of information possible to keep things interested. If you get comfortable in education thats definitely a bad thing, everything is always changing around us, so we need to adapt and get with it.
The use of technology always people to be closer and more efficient. This is in regards to george's comment with how talked to this one principal on twitter for 8 months and then did a presentation with a guy that he never ever talked to face to face but it felt like he knew him his whole life, if it wasn't for technology that would never be possible. I think its very interesting how we can learn from peopl from other countries through skype, blogs, any social media applications with the click of a mouse.
I feel if the funding and the technology is their in my classroom I will definitely be attempting to use all the stuff I have learned about ICT and use it for teaching my children, to keep them engaged, make learning FUN, and to make my job more interesting.
GET with the TIMES PPL!
Nathan Corrigal
I was blown away with how he was talking about students in his school in grade 3 were using blogs as a way of learning from each other and reflecting about what they had learned. That impressed me alot. Blogging is a very unique way of sharing information, thoughts and ideas, I think every classroom teacher should definitely include them in their classes.
What I thought was very interesting is that the world is a ever changing place, so why aren't the schools? He said he wanted his school to be the best school, and by the sounds of the way he incorporates technology in the classroom, he is well ahead of others. I really agree with that statement if the world is based around technology, then why aren't we doing this in schools? No wonder kids are getting bored by reading a text book, they go home in the evening and do everything online or on a computer, go to school and is forced to read a 15 year old book. We as teacher's need to get with the "times" and start using every possible resource of information possible to keep things interested. If you get comfortable in education thats definitely a bad thing, everything is always changing around us, so we need to adapt and get with it.
The use of technology always people to be closer and more efficient. This is in regards to george's comment with how talked to this one principal on twitter for 8 months and then did a presentation with a guy that he never ever talked to face to face but it felt like he knew him his whole life, if it wasn't for technology that would never be possible. I think its very interesting how we can learn from peopl from other countries through skype, blogs, any social media applications with the click of a mouse.
I feel if the funding and the technology is their in my classroom I will definitely be attempting to use all the stuff I have learned about ICT and use it for teaching my children, to keep them engaged, make learning FUN, and to make my job more interesting.
GET with the TIMES PPL!
Nathan Corrigal
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Response to "Reinventing Physical Education"
After I watched the Ted Talk video on how schools in the united states were using technology to really narrow down target heart rates, calories burned during exercise, and just how long they were actually getting physical activity throughout the day, I thought to myself how great is that.
The school's obviously have a large amount of money to be able to afford such things, but still, the fact that they use heart rate monitors and track their rate heart while they are playing physical activity is a unique idea. The presenter opens the presentation up with a statement about how we have a childhood obesity problem in United States, well that can be said for Canada as well.
As a P.E major, I always come across students that are much larger than ever I was as a child, no offence but it is reality. As educators in the Physical Education world, we have to be aware of this. WE have to become more knowledgable about the whole nature of the epidimic, and try and make a difference. If technology will allow us to pin point specific critieria that will allow us to make changes in children's life then we better start using it.
It's important as P.E teachers to really make the importance of Physical Education known to students, right from a young age. However, we could tell them till were blue in the face about how important it is, and they still might not care.
WHAT DO WE DO? We as P.E teachers, make physical activity fun, this comes with alot of unique and diverse strategies. I know personally when I grew up P.E was based on competition and who could be the best. Now P.E is definitely turn around and we are making small changes, for instance- students do not get singled out regardless of athletic ability or skill level. Everyone is treated the same, for example if we were playing volleyball in the gym, you would not be able to pick out the best volleyball player, because drills and games that are set-up by a knowledgable P.E teacher would make skill and ability not a priority, their prioritiy is to make sure every student is engaged, even for that student that "hates" P.E, they will all be engaged and having FUN. Thats what it comes down to, P.E is almost like a life time skill, they have to informed and engaged at a early age to really care on with a healthy lifestyle in order to be healthy!
Just some thoughts to note.
Nate
The school's obviously have a large amount of money to be able to afford such things, but still, the fact that they use heart rate monitors and track their rate heart while they are playing physical activity is a unique idea. The presenter opens the presentation up with a statement about how we have a childhood obesity problem in United States, well that can be said for Canada as well.
As a P.E major, I always come across students that are much larger than ever I was as a child, no offence but it is reality. As educators in the Physical Education world, we have to be aware of this. WE have to become more knowledgable about the whole nature of the epidimic, and try and make a difference. If technology will allow us to pin point specific critieria that will allow us to make changes in children's life then we better start using it.
It's important as P.E teachers to really make the importance of Physical Education known to students, right from a young age. However, we could tell them till were blue in the face about how important it is, and they still might not care.
WHAT DO WE DO? We as P.E teachers, make physical activity fun, this comes with alot of unique and diverse strategies. I know personally when I grew up P.E was based on competition and who could be the best. Now P.E is definitely turn around and we are making small changes, for instance- students do not get singled out regardless of athletic ability or skill level. Everyone is treated the same, for example if we were playing volleyball in the gym, you would not be able to pick out the best volleyball player, because drills and games that are set-up by a knowledgable P.E teacher would make skill and ability not a priority, their prioritiy is to make sure every student is engaged, even for that student that "hates" P.E, they will all be engaged and having FUN. Thats what it comes down to, P.E is almost like a life time skill, they have to informed and engaged at a early age to really care on with a healthy lifestyle in order to be healthy!
Just some thoughts to note.
Nate
Saturday, February 5, 2011
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