Summary of attendance

I attended a workshop called “How do we support students in trauma?” by Ebony Johnson of Tulsa Public Schools. First we shared stories where we knew of a child or an adult that experienced trauma, and discussed what happened, how we handled it, what worked/helped, and what we could have done better. We talked about how we can support students that have experienced trauma, crisis support, family support, conflict resolution strategies, and core competencies of social and emotional learning. We did a lot of discussion in pairs, small groups, and as a whole group. Mrs. Johnson provided us with handouts to extend the information she was speaking about. I learned so much about how to support students and even adults that have experienced trauma. This is beneficial to me as a future teacher because I will come across students, peers, or even adults that have experienced trauma and now I have learned how to support them in those times of need. 

I learned about how to edit and make trailers in iMovie. This will be great for projects in my classroom such as history re-enactments and book reports.

In the workshop, Dr. Cullen gave me lots of examples of books to use in class to teach technology to my students. She taught us how each book that she shared related to an ISTE standard and gave the recommended ages for each book. This workshop got me really excited to be able to incorporate these books into my classroom and they give me an easy way to teach technology standards, which is something I was nervous about before. 

Over the course of the webinar, I was able to learn about the different types of technology books that included the ISTE standards.  Since I am an Early Childhood Education major, I know the importance of books and representation for students in the classroom.  With these books, I can show students that they can do other fun things other than focus on their technology or ways to still socialize offline.  Overall, my favorite books were "When Charlie McButton Lost Power" and "Grace Hopper Queen of Computer Code."

I was really surprised by this webinar because I didn’t think I could find this particular webinar useful for mathematics education but I was wrong. Dr.Cullen shares a lot of different coding books with girl role models which I am now adding these books to my amazon wishlist because I want to read them myself. The book that caught my eye was the “sewing electric”, I would love to get my hands on that book and try to make some of those project mentioned. Also, I didn’t know that book writers had created a children’s book about Ada Lovelace. I could totally used these books to talk with my future students about influential mathematicians. 

I learned about how to incorporate several different types of books in the classroom. Technology also has a huge impact in the creativity of each child’s mind.  I know now to have a resourceful library that interests all of my children to encompasses many genres so they can learn various new knowledge.  I also learned about what books not to use and to be careful of content to make sure it matches the grade level. 

In "Google Forms and Tablets: Collecting Data on the Fly" with Susan Brooks-Young, I learned the three R's for incorporating technology into my future classroom as well as some interesting tidbits about the future of cloud-based information. Susan said that, in order to incorporate technology effectively, one must have the rationale, the right tools, and the resources to truly make it work. Also, she discussed the pros and cons of working on a web browser vs. an app and that Google Drive is kicking the bucket in favor of Drive File Stream as of Dec. 11! This helped me see what teachers and administrators are currently doing to utilize tech as part of their assessments. Although I'm an English Ed major, I'm a data-junky. Having the right tools is essential for obtaining data.

We learned about Bernoulli’s principle and how gas is similar to liquid. Gas can take on the shape of the container of liquid and it also has a fluid movement like liquid. We figured this out by doing a series of experiments and made predictions about what we thought would happen and then conducted the experiment. All of the experiments that we did can be do for any age group and did not cost a lot of money to make. This is a great way to have an interactive hands on lesson plan. 

This workshop focused on ways of engaging the interest of students. Space is natural a very interesting subject for students and ideas and assignments associated with it can be used across various subjects.  The lesson focused on getting students up and around. The simulation lesson had students in groups acting as if they worked for NASA and were trying to go to another planet. The focus of the lesson was learning about remote sensing and bit of chemistry toward the end. Although the lesson itself may not be very applicable in a Social Studies classroom, the idea presented is. Space is very interesting and it goes hand and hand with history, ideas of geography, politics, and philosophy. There are many avenues where I can use science and intrigue to connect and build bridges to social Studies and I am quite excited about that.

Today, I attended a NASA workshop for educators. This workshop discussed why it is important to incorporate science and aerospace education in the classroom. A couple reasons are to explore students curiosity, broaden students knowledge and compare and contrast earth to the other planets in our solar system. The lesson was focused on remote sensing which is a way to collect data without touching what you are observing. To put this in prospective, we use remote sensing everyday. We use our eyes to observe the things around us and from that data we form opinions and observations. The lesson was about finding a new planet that could support life, and in this lesson we had 5 missions. After these missions we used the app Haiku to record our groups findings. The app is used to make a quick presentation so students can express their thoughts quickly and with few words. Overall, this was a great hands on activity that made science and chemistry fun! 

The first hour of the NASA STEM workshop I went to was about the Bernoulli effect. They gave us several activity ideas for rotations to help students discover the Bernoulli effect. We had to predict what would happen, and almost all of them surprised us with what actually happened. I think this element of surprise is something I want to continue to incorporate into my lessons, so that students stay engaged and curious. I also think it would be easy to measure more aspects of these mini experiments and calculate flow rates, distances, etc to make it fit better in a math classroom.
The presenter used Nearpod, and I really liked the collaborative slide she did where everyone posted on the "bulletin board" at once. It saved a lot of time on everyone saying their answers one at a time and took a lot of anxiety away from speaking in front of the class.

for this workshop we went to a variety of stations. They were all focused on how air affects different objects. We were all given a straw to use and many of the stations had ping pong balls. My favorite station was using the straw to have a ping pong ball hover.