Week 4 had many topics that I thought were interesting. However,collaboration and students choice seem to catch my eye the most. The following quote from Harness Your Students’ Digital Smarts from Vicki Davis is my favorite. “I believe every student can learn, every child can learn. But where children start having trouble is when you only have paper and pencil. Then only certain types of students are going to succeed.” I agree with her totally. I teach a class where students work on labs and projects with a review test at the end. Some of my students are good at taking test and other are good at building networks and computers. If I only test one of those skills then the student who is weaker in that area will suffer. I love using different technology in my class. I think it keeps the kids from being bored. The other theme that I kept seeing was the idea of collaboration. Most jobs in the world today have some form of collaboration between workers. In the video Team Teaching: Two Teachers, Three Subjects, One Project demonstrated the benefits of collaboration in the classroom. This type of learning helps prepare students get a job or succeed during college. Group projects and collaboration was a major change for me when I went to college. More classes should provide team teaching to prepare students for life after high school.
- Citation: Edutopia (nd). Team Teaching: Two Teachers, Three Subjects, One Project. Retrieved on Oct. 5, 2009 from http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-blood-bank-video
- Citation: Edutopia.org. (nd). Harness Your Students’ Digital Smarts. Retrieved on Oct. 5, 2009 from http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-teachers-vicki-davis
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