What does
this movement mean for you as an educator?
What tools do
you see yourself using in the classroom and why? Write two paragraphs.
Watching this video made me realize how much working
together with other people can help me and other teachers with our classrooms. It
is a great idea for people to put their own ideas out there to help others,
only after making sure they are okay with everyone copying their ideas. We can
learn off many different teachers (art, music, writers etc.) and use their
different ideas in our lessons to incorporate every aspect of learning into our
classroom. Even though we don’t realize it, we as teachers are working with
other people we don’t know to come up with ways to educate our students. We may
put our own ideas up on the Internet, or tell them to others who then spread
the word. This can get around to other teachers and help them with their
classrooms. This is collaborating together, even if we don’t realize it.
Everything teachers do in the classroom they have either thought of themselves
or looked it up, and when they have looked it up, this means that they have
used someone else’s ideas for their own classroom. This is working together to
be the best teachers we can be. Everyone is helping everyone. If teachers don’t
have their own ideas, they use many different resources they can like
pinterest, websites, books etc. to find new and exciting ideas. This movement
of working together under ‘Creative Commons’ allows everyone to put their ideas
somewhere (books, internet etc.) so that other people can look them up to
either use them or modify them to suit their classrooms. For me, this movement
means people helping me and me helping others to be the best teachers we can
be. It means putting every idea we come up with out there so that we can
collaborate together to come up with ways to teach every lesson possible for
every different type of student. The more ideas and ways to teach, the better
it is for teachers.
I will use a variety of tools in my classroom as every
student is different and learns in different ways with different tools. It all
depends on the students I have in the classroom and how they learn best. Most
of the time, however, I will use many visual tools like solid models, books, drawing
on the board and then getting them to repeat the process, etc. Things that the
students can hold, do themselves, and understand by actually ‘doing’ the
activity will be used the most in my classroom. Technology will also be used,
as it is becoming a bigger tool when teaching students. Either getting them to
look things up on the internet, playing math games, learning how to use certain
tools on the technology like Microsoft Word or other programs, will all be
better if the students do them on their own devices and follow along as I give
them the instructions. There are also tools online that help students and
teachers out in the classroom like ways to keep up with students grades, online
collaborative learning environments, ways to help students learn the material in
different ways (like quizzes or flash cards), or social networks just for
school. Even though I will give the students work sheets for some lessons and
work they have to do by themselves with writing, using notebooks or more
lecture type lessons, I will use many visual and hands on learning devices as I
believe students enjoy this more. They are more likely to remember activities
and lessons they enjoyed and will connect the fun activities with the content without
even knowing (will remember it because they actually want to).
