Educational Technology

Data Collection I think that data collection will be a very important thing to use as an educator. I would mostly use surveys to chart how effective I am being as an educator. Since I want to be in the high school range, students will have a general understanding of how to rate things. I will want them to rate how well I am educating them so I can change the way I teach to better fit my classes learning. There is always constant room for improvement when it comes to everything in life. The best educators are ones that are not stuck in their ways and are open to constructive criticism.  "The Flipped Classroom" "The Flipped Classroom" is defined as being a model of teaching that is different from traditional classroom set-up. In the flipped classroom, the time spent outside of the classroom is used to learn the meat and potatoes of the instruction and the time spent inside the classroom is spent for practicing what was learned outside of the classroom. I think ...

Technology and Teacher Professional Development Staying up to date on technology is an important thing in today's day and age. It is even more important for educators because of their unique position of teaching the newer generations. One website that I have found to help educators stay up to date on all technology trends is  Digital Trends . This website has technology news articles, product reviews and rankings, and a bunch of other resources that all have to deal with the current news in technology. Here is a screenshot of the homepage: PowerPoint I have learned a lot through making the two different PowerPoint presentations. This is a screenshot of my linear PowerPoint presentation:  I learned that you can voice over a PowerPoint. This is a valuable tool that I have learned because I can present my PowerPoint presentations without being present. This is a screenshot of my non-linear PowerPoint presentation:  I learned even more while making my non-linea...

Assistive and Adaptive Technologies Assistive and adaptive technologies are extremely important when it comes to supporting learners in education. They are used to help students that can't normally use traditional technologies use them in an educational setting. For example, there is voice recognition software for the students that can't type. When I was in school, one of my friends was dyslexic, so he put all of his work through a spell checker and even asked the teacher to proofread before he turned his work in. One of the challenges that I see with adaptive technologies in my classroom is that if I have a student with a physical disability that has to use a voice recognition program might be distracting to other students. I will combat this by informing students of the importance of the program to that student before we start. I can also offer headphones for the other students so they can listen closer to their own material and block outside noise. Universal Design Un...

Dynamic Instructional Design Model Dynamic Instructional Design (DID) model is a 6-step model that was made to create instructional materials more effectively. For this blog, I am going to look at a lesson plan that I got from CPALMS and evaluate each step one by one using the DID. Here is a link to the lesson plan that I am going to use:  Lesson Plan .  1) Know your learners :  It important to know the learners in your classroom. With this knowledge you can mold your lesson plan to be effective for all the various backgrounds. In this lesson plan, I think that it does a good job of taking into account possible learner backgrounds. The only thing that I would change would be to make sure each students had a basic understanding of World War 2. I would do that by starting the lesson with engaging the class in a discussion about their prior knowledge of World War 2 and adding any additional information they have missed. I understand that World War 2 is a very extensive ...