Blog 12

I think it was very interesting for the guest speaker to come and talk to us about assistive technology. I am new to this topic and it was nice for him to share the story about his daughter having to wear hearing aids. And it is probably easier and fun for him to go speak to different people about assistive technology, because he has experienced it from his daughter. The machine he made for his daughter to learn was very neat. He passed it around and let us look at it.

Assistive Technology Video and Questions

My reaction to this video was wow. I think this was a very neat video about how to help children with disabilities to learn. I never knew about the different techniques they use  until I watched this video I  have never been in contact with an assistive technologies. I am looking forward to the guest speaker so I can learn more. I hope the guest speaker bring the techniques with them. The questions I would ask, is what made them come up with these techniques and do they really learn from them.

Lesson Plan from Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

This website is really neat I never heard about it before. I like how it has different lesson plans to go with your lesson for each grade. It also tell you the activities you can do with your kids. At first when I was searching how to explore the website I got confused until I kept playing with different parts on the website. It also tell you the standards, objectives, materials, and procedures of the lesson instead of searching for it, that is easy to fill in on the standard part on your own lesson plan.

I will most likely use this when in the future, because creating lesson plans are hard. I wish I knew about this when I was at the community college, because we had to create lesson plans every week until May. It was stressful trying to come up with activities, objectives and materials. I am very helpful for having this class, because it just made teaching a little easier. I will use this website as a helpful source when I begin teaching.

Assignment 9

I had two student who made 50/100 and one student who made 100/100. For the next class I will go over nouns and pronouns more with them. Some of my students got confused with what the questions I was asking. So I will give them some practice questions for the lesson and then I will test them again on it. This will let me know if they understand it after I reteach it.

Assignment 8:Edpuzzle

I love doing the Edpuzzle assignment it was really fun to do. At first it was very confusing for me to get started on it. I played with the Edpuzzle before I picked the lesson I wanted to do. I watched the demo video how to add like the sound and questions. It took me a little minute to find the right lesson to do, because some of the videos were in different languages.

After I picked my video I didn't know what questions I wanted to ask. Finally I got everything in order and right. This is something I will use a lot to teach my students in the future. I also love how you can create a multiple choice little test or the students to answer. And also I like how you can grade the students and leave comments.

I enjoyed the group video assignment, we had our own different roles to play. It really took me back to when I was in high school. Before the video was made, we didn’t have a script. But when we shot the video we just went along with a script and we didn’t even have to write it down. Even though we had to keep doing some scenes over the video turned out to be a good video.

Our video was based on a popular problem in school districts today. Common Core is a night mare to the kids, because it is forcing them to learn on a faster pace. I learned that if you ask questions and get help you will do good. I learned that Common Core will teach a lesson then move on even if other students don’t understand. Common Core is the reason some kids lack in the education system.