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I am between two worlds. Before
going into the areas I need to improve on (a lot), I would like to focus on an
area where I have made the most growth. I am enjoying and becoming very
familiar with Edmodo and implementing it into my current student-teaching
placement. In fact, I would like you to become a member of the groups I have
made for my students to get your feedback and advice on how to improve. I have
posted more stuff on there than any other online site I have ever joined, minus
the rumor mill for my fantasy basketball league. I am always posting links to
sites and videos for the content we are learning about. Not all of them look at
it, but when I get feedback from the ones that do, I get that great feeling
that I am doing something right in helping them learn. I have some difficulties
in this program, but all of my doubts seem to disappear for a moment when I
hear how they are using my resources to find ones on their own.
As of a few hours ago, I am getting
more familiar with tweeting and learnist. I have tweeted and blogged in the
past, but not on the weekly basis I am supposed to. This is going to change. This
self-assessment is a wake-up call for me to start becoming more of an online
presence. I am finding some cool stuff and it is nice to know that I can use
learnist and twitter as a public file folder for stuff I can go back and look
at. The next step is for me to look for things that not only interest me, but
that are concurrent with the content I am teaching at my placement. Mixing it
up with articles and not just videos can go a long way into introducing my 6th
grade students to what a credible source is and that just because they bell
rang for the end of school, it does not mean that their learning has to end for
the day as well. An idea I use a lot from a class last semester is getting the
students in the habit that when they study history, they are actually
detectives. Just because they read it in the text does not make it true. They
are encouraged to find evidence to refute things they think sound weird in the
text. This tactic is great because whether they prove something wrong or not,
the information is more likely to stay because of the time investment they put
into it.
Even though I panic when I think
about this class, I have become more optimistic while completing this midterm.
Trying to be part of the matrix does not seem like as much of a struggle
anymore. One thing that would help is if we could set up a time to meet to go
over the expectations for the rest of the semester. This is one area where I am
entrenched in a real world network. E-mails and blog comments can only go so
far for me. I am much more comfortable with an in person meeting, not all the
time, but I think one soon will put me more on focus on what I should be doing
to fulfill the requirements of this class.
