Teaching+With+Technology

=**Teaching With Technology**=


 * Week 1**


 * During the 1st week, part of the assignment was to create a group with 3-5 other members. We will work as a group to complete a scenario. This week we were to organize the group, create a google site, and google doc. We also shared our teaching experience with each other.**


 * Members of this collaborative team are: **
 * Katrina Powell-Science Teacher for 5 years **
 * Kirstie Johnson **
 * Treena Bell **
 * MJ McDaniel **

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====In the readings for this week, I really liked Constructivism in the Classroom: If I Teach This Way, Am I Doing My Job? ==== ==== **"The teacher no longer has to be in charge every minute, but can give some of the control over to the students and the technology. If approached in a constructivist manner, the teacher’s job becomes one of facilitator or architect (Norton & Wiburg, 1998). Instead of telling students the answer, the teacher asks questions to help them discover the answer themselves. For this type of teaching to be successful, teachers need to give students time to explore the material and construct meaning from the experience."** ==== ** Sprague, D, & Dede, C. (1999). Constructivism in the Classroom: If I Teach This Way, Am I Doing My Job?. Learning & Leading with Technology, 27(1), Retrieved from http://imet.csus.edu/imet9/280/docs/dede_constructivisim.pdf ** ==== ==== ==== **I really liked this quote from //Constructivism In The Classroom If I Teach This Way, Am I Doing My Job//. I think students do learn more if they have to figure out the answer. I teach Computer Applications in 7th grade. It is a real task to get the students to be independent from the teacher. Some students are use to someone doing it for them. Other students want me to approve one step before they proceed to another. They basically want me to walk through each step with them. Usually these students are the ones who "get it" but are scared to move on by themselves. One year I had a student who is now a valedictorian, who wanted me by her side to approve every step she made. Stressing and reinforcing that she can be successful without my approval every step of the way was hard for her to get use to. Students are use to being walked through learning. Once she saw what she could do on her own, she was a completely different student in my room. She started going beyond my expectation.** ==== ==== ==== ==== **I also like to use students to teach students. They learn from each other so much more than they do the teacher. Plus if the student can teach another student the task, that student has truly learned the task at hand. One of my strategies for this, is I will show a couple of students how to do the objective. That student then has to teach his/her neighbor. As I monitor the student's teaching, every student has perform the task and taught it to another student. This really works in my classroom. Peer influence is a huge impact. The students want to be able to teach to other students. This is also a good opportunity for me to initiate troubleshooting and enrichment.** ==== ==== ====