Reflection

On the first summary I explained how I would use it. These included having students make book trailers, make a movie re-enacting history, explain a subject. I also could use it to show parents a tour of my room or school.

This workshop was relevant to me & my future classroom because I am going to have children that have experienced trauma and if I build relationships with my kids and create a bond with them I will learn their triggers and be able to create a safe environment for them. This will overall better the community and safety of my classroom. 

I would use iMovie as an evaluation of my students’ learning. It would be more fun and beneficial for them to demonstrate their learning through a presentation rather than a written test.

I learned so much during this webinar. Dr. Cullen started with the youngest grades by giving examples of books that can bring technology into the classroom and create these conversations with the little kids. I want to teach first grade so this is something that I really appreciated and something that I could picture myself doing. I also learned more about the ISTE standards through this webinar which was very helpful. I can use these books in my classroom and attach them to the ISTE standards, like Dr. Cullen demonstrated, so that my administrators can see the reason behind each lesson.

With this experience, I have a good list of books I could use in my future classroom to show students how to use technology in the correct manor.  I could show students how not everything they find on the internet is true, what plagiarism is, and how technology was even made.  There are many ways to use books in an early childhood education classroom since most units are opened up with a book.  Based off of some of these books, students can do more activities to further their learning such as putting their own twist of "When You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by reading "When You Give a Mouse an iPhone."

Dr. Cullen mentioned about the Girls Who Code organization which is a after school program that teaches girls how to code, and I have been interested in this organization for a while now. In fact, I would like to start up my own Girls Who Code program in my future school district. I’m really glad Dr. Cullen mentioned about those coding books gears towards female readers; I think they would be a great addition to a classroom. The webinar also inspired me to do a math history lesson where students would create a book over a mathematician that they are assigned or chose. 

I really liked the books that covered bullying issues as it is a major problem in schools. It can be brought up in a positive manner to encourage the ones who are getting bullied and mentor the bullies. The creativity from the Dot book encouraged me to see that children represent their brains in several different amazing ways. I would love to have a library in my future classroom to help kids seek more knowledge and understanding. Providing a safe place to read will allow students to learn and not feel scared. Promoting an environment of useful resources and books that challenge their learning will create a helpful tool for them to ultilize at anytime. 

I think it's important to always keep in mind why we want to add technology to the classroom. Are we substituting something? If so, what will be gain by making the substitution? Is it augmenting reality? What are the additions doing to improve how we already do something? Is the technology modifying our existing methods? How so? Is the tech redefining our classrooms? Each of these questions is one that should be asked each time new tech is being considered for a classroom. Without this rationale, the right tools, and the resources, technology integration will fail.

This is relevant to my future classroom because it showed me how easy it is to make experiments that my students can conduct. Even if I just did one of the experiments before a leacture my students would have such a better understanding about the topic. Students will learn better and remember more when they know why they are learning something and they can make connections about how this is related to their everyday life. 

It has some relevanc, like I mentioned earlier space and NASA go hand and hand with a variety of subjects with social studies. Knowing this I will be able to make connections with the interest that natural comes with discussion of space and relate it to what ever discipline of social studies I am in at the time. It was a  a good reminder that you can work together wi5 your fellow teachers and that what we do is more connected than we like to think at times. 

During this workshop we learned how to incorporate science in the classroom in fun ways that engage and interest students. We learned about space and the characteristics of planets in our solar system. In the classroom this would be a great activity to promote collaborative learning and spark students curiosity. The activity was hands on and used materials provided by NASA that we were able to take home to use in our future classrooms. The activity allowed us to think, predict, and analyze aspects of space. 

Like I said in the summary, I can definitely use the element of surprise to keep students curious and involved. I also liked using a collaborative app to let students brainstorm, especially one where I can approve comments. Lastly, I liked how she used rotations to have us do mini-experiments and keep everyone active, even though there were many people. I could definitely adapt this style of rotations with discovery learning for a mathematics classroom.