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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