Reflection

This information was helpful because as a future teacher I learned about how to find supplemental lessons that align with text books and resources that can be used to improve my classroom. Working with technology is important as iPads and tablets are more prevalent in schools. Learning how to expand technology in the classroom to help my students is something that will help me when I have my own classroom.

This is very relevant to my future classroom because I will hopefully be teaching young children, so this was a great webinar to see how to integrate technology and coding in the classroom. What I liked most about the webinar was that the app was designed specifically for young children to learn coding. There is also an app that is just "Scratch", so someone else could use this in their classroom too. This webinar was also helpful because there were actual examples and videos of children showing how they use the app and what they like about the app as well. I could use this as an introduction to coding, or could use it as a technology center in the classroom.

I kind of already talked about this in the other writing post but my students are going to use these apps we learned to create videos of their own creative stories, books they've read, and worlds they have created. Students will enjoy the vast number of options that they will have in creating them. Depending on the class, I'm not going to limit them to just using one particular video creator. I'm going to give them a few choices and let them pick the one that best fits them and their piece. I can use the lapse it app to create a video to show the students how much work they put it on specific projects. They can see the blurs of themselves as they race around to get things done. 

This Webinar was a great example of learning tips and instructions on how to improve something you've never done. I could tell early on that Chelsea and Angela both had plenty of experience with virtual cultural exchanges and that we would be getting some great advice on the subject. As luck would have it, one of the overseas teachers that regularly partakes in classroom cultural exchanges was present for this webinar, and was available to offer additional advice on these virtual exchanges.
While it may seem easy enough to gather a class together, make a video, and send it to another country, doing it right and doing it well mean putting forth plenty of extra effort to prepare one's students for the exchange in a way that is effectively educational. This idea is one that I definitely expect to pursue in my career; cultural literacy is crucial to good citizenry, especially in a time when communication is more widely available than any other time in history. I hope that I can learn more about this method of cultural exchange and engage my students with others around the world.

Coding could be a fun thing to use in classrooms to introduce students to computer science. It can spark critical thinking and creativity. However, as a special education major, I do not think that I will use this in my classroom. The students I plan on working with will be working on necessary life skills and beginner academic information. It was enjoyable to learn how to code and how it can be used.

As an Elementary Education Major, this session was very relevant to my future classroom. Finding children's literature that is about real world problems is very difficult, and from this session I have a total of about 25 books I can use that cover a variety of issues and topics. 

Going to iPadPalooza was very relevant to my future classroom because I learned many different ways to use my iPad. With the apple teacher workshop, I was able to go through quizzes that tested my knowledge on various apps on the iPad such as Garage Band, Numbers, etc. If I did not know enough of the information, I was able to look through an iBook to help me. Becoming an Apple Teacher will be very beneficial if my future classroom has iPads because then I will be able to help out my students more efficiently.

this is relevant to my future as an educator in many big ways. From the webinar I was able to figure out about a lot of different apps and books that will help me to teach coding in my classroom. Although I do not think I would be very good with swift playground, I might have students that really get it and like it. One thing that Dr. Cullen advised was to find one program that I, as a future teacher, really knows and likes then teach just that. I hope to explore different programs to be familiarize myself with coding. 

This webinar is relevant to my future classroom in that teaching students to code at a young age and exposing them to coding is very important. More and more jobs are requiring coding, so students need to feel comfortable with it. This webinar helped me realize that it is okay to be a co-learner with students when it comes to coding. I do not have much experience with coding, and it will also be a learning experience for me when I teach this in my future classroom. One question that I still have: how can you introduce basic coding skills to children as young as Pre-K to Kindergarten aged?

Overall I would say that this was a good workshop because I got to see real world applications for the things that we learn in class.

This workshop was very relevant to my future classroom because I learned several ways to improve the way I present myself in the classroom.  Melanie Adams also went over questions that you might see in an interview for a teaching position; this was beneficial because it gave insight into the nerve-racking interview process that I will someday go through in order to become a teacher.

As a middle school social studies teacher, I doubt that I will use this information very often in my classroom. It might be useful if we are covering the history of the internet, or the development of technology, or other uses for coding (like NASA's use of programming). However, I don't see very much relevance beyond that for my classroom.
It might be a neat STEM activity for younger students and upper elementary students could actually start looking at the coding language to create their own programs.