Blog Post 10

Since I plan to become an English teacher, I expect to use data collection surveys for many different pieces of information such as the way students feel about books we have read in class, what students enjoyed and didn’t enjoy in class in general, and maybe, in the beginning of the year, what students enjoy reading and writing. The last type of survey would allow me to structure my class in a way that will appeal to my students. If the majority of my students prefer reading non-fiction essays, I may substitute a few of these in place of a novel that we read. This survey would also allow me to base some of my writing assignments on what types of writing my students prefer in the survey. Of course I will not change all of my lesson plans based on the surveys, but I will change things from time to time based on the survey results.

When reviewing my classmates’ blogs, I found it interesting to see how many people felt that Diigo was helpful and plan to use it in their classrooms. I found Diigo to be the most helpful tool that we used as well, simply because annotations are essential when you are looking to point out critical pieces of information within a website or article. I also found it useful to have a combined class page as all of the hyperlinks people used in their blogs can allow us to have immediate access to websites full of teacher tools and information.


Next, I would like to learn how to code software so I can code some of my own education software. One of my favorite things we did in class was when we went to the tech sandbox. If I knew how to code, I could help to create pieces of technology like we saw in the tech sandbox. This would allow me to bring my creativity into the classroom. I especially would like to learn about how to create VR, because I think the future of classrooms could possibly be VR, allowing children who are sick to still participate in classes and allowing lessons to be far more interactive and immersive. What better way to learn about a foreign country than being able to all take a field trip to that country using VR.

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