This is my final post for EDM310. I have really enjoyed this class and my teacher. I truly believe Dr. Strange was right about acting as a coach. That is how his teaching is reflected on students and it has put me more at ease in the classroom. I have really felt like he wants his students to do well in his class and has gone above and beyond to make himself available and devote himself to us entirely when we needed help. I learn best this way if someone is there to guide me from beginning to end, and that's exactly what he did. Every week he updated the class blog so there would never be any confusion with assignments or a failed attempt to seek his help on a project because you could always contact him through this.
Every time we learned something new he would posted a home-made video repeating what he just taught us, either so the students could go back and learn it all over again if they forgot and use it to practice, or if they were absent one day and missed class. These videos were on the Internet so you could watch them anytime, and when you needed to study. I personally watched them over and over and was very grateful that they were there. They really helped me a great deal. They were so detailed and you could even stop and start them to learn at your own pace. He always explained things very thoroughly. I sometimes learned more through those than in class because i could stop and start them to listen again. Computers and technology can be very stressful and frustrating just as much as helpful sometimes, and he made sure he told us explicit instructions so everything would always come out right. If you watched the videos and did everything step by step as he explained it you couldn't go wrong, and that was comforting. I like classes where you can be certain about whats going to be right or wrong on a test or project. He didn't leave us guessing on anything. Everything was right there in front of us and all on the access of any computer. I really learned a lot and am all for the use of the instructional videos. I watched almost all of them multiple times and they were a huge help.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Stanford Challenge
In this video, a psychology teacher at Stanford is interviewed about the study she did on something called the growth mindset. The growth midset is something that is used as a tool to help students learn better by teaching them to think of themsleves as being able to continue to learn things their whole life and that they will gain intellingence gradually as they learn more everyday. The other mindset of students that is mentioned is one where students think that just doing one thing can allow them to appear smart, such as studying for a test by cramming, memorization, and then forgetting everything immediately after. A study was done for 8 weeks where she took half a class and taught them study skills, but with the growth mindset, and then the other half teaching just the study skills. The results included grades raised by the growth midset students and of course a bad report for the other group lacking the mindset. The video proved that seeing the big picture and knowing that you will gain intelligence at a pace throughout your whole life gives you some confidence to learn with an incentive to keep getting better and that all of your education is getting you somewhere.
The teachers at Stanford could guess which students were taught with the mindset by their attitudes and academic performance. The psychologist, Carol Dweck, also informs us that even after we begin to age our brain is still growing and we need to use it constantly, not just when we have a test. She tells us that it is necessary in the job world after school to improve and be promoted in businesses from thinking this way. She says that if these students want to excel in their career they will need to keep this mindset even when they get out of college.
It is important as teachers for us to instill this idea for all of our students whether they choose to use it or not. The point is... teachers can always choose to teach this way in hopes that our students will choose to go about learning and working with this mindset. Our future is in their hands so our teaching this way may help them rise to success in their jobs for the rest of their lives. This concept helps students and teachers take the purpose for their education seriously.
The teachers at Stanford could guess which students were taught with the mindset by their attitudes and academic performance. The psychologist, Carol Dweck, also informs us that even after we begin to age our brain is still growing and we need to use it constantly, not just when we have a test. She tells us that it is necessary in the job world after school to improve and be promoted in businesses from thinking this way. She says that if these students want to excel in their career they will need to keep this mindset even when they get out of college.
It is important as teachers for us to instill this idea for all of our students whether they choose to use it or not. The point is... teachers can always choose to teach this way in hopes that our students will choose to go about learning and working with this mindset. Our future is in their hands so our teaching this way may help them rise to success in their jobs for the rest of their lives. This concept helps students and teachers take the purpose for their education seriously.
The Teacher's Domain
I had a difficult time watching the movies without interruption becuase the quality was not perfect when i played them, but besides that i think they would be very useful. The videos would be wonderful to use in a classroom and help all different students who learn in different ways be able to connect with a lesson i am trying to teach. I think I could use it for all sorts of subjects too. The children would respond better to a video like this because it would be like watching TV and different from any day to day routine listening to a teacher talk.
The videos also had a wide variety of topics like i said to suit more than one subject, and i think any grade could make use of these. Children could gain help paying attention watching these movies because they provide a helpful way for them to remember information. It is almost like a study guide for kids that the teacher can set up on the computer, except it wouldn't be written so they could lose it or get bored with it. If the teacher wanted to have a review day before a test this would be a good and fun break for kids.
Visual learning is usually successful, for all ages. The videos grabbed you and displayed colorful and vibrant picture that would be a good way for students to retain the facts that they were learning. This is a very good resource for elementary school teachers to incorporate technology in the classroom. They can encourage children to learn how to use it, and teach students that it can be a good and helpful source of learning in the future if it works for them and they get more out of it than other study ideas.
The videos also had a wide variety of topics like i said to suit more than one subject, and i think any grade could make use of these. Children could gain help paying attention watching these movies because they provide a helpful way for them to remember information. It is almost like a study guide for kids that the teacher can set up on the computer, except it wouldn't be written so they could lose it or get bored with it. If the teacher wanted to have a review day before a test this would be a good and fun break for kids.
Visual learning is usually successful, for all ages. The videos grabbed you and displayed colorful and vibrant picture that would be a good way for students to retain the facts that they were learning. This is a very good resource for elementary school teachers to incorporate technology in the classroom. They can encourage children to learn how to use it, and teach students that it can be a good and helpful source of learning in the future if it works for them and they get more out of it than other study ideas.
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